>Tim wrote: > jackson byers wrote: >> any suggestions for command line playing of radio internet streams? >mplayer http://example.com >or, mplayer -playlist http://example.com [byers@f10 ~]$ mplayer http://www.abacast.com/media/pls/kcsm/kcsm-kcsm-sc32.pls MPlayer SVN-r28461-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 7) mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing http://www.abacast.com/media/pls/kcsm/kcsm-kcsm-sc32.pls. Resolving www.abacast.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.abacast.com Resolving www.abacast.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server www.abacast.com[198.145.250.78]: 80... Cache size set to 320 KBytes Playing http://sc1.abacast.com:8242. Resolving sc1.abacast.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: sc1.abacast.com Resolving sc1.abacast.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server sc1.abacast.com[216.218.147.60]: 8242... Name : KCSM Jazz 91 * The Bay Area's Jazz Station * Stream 332 * Listener Supported * KCSM Jazz 91 * www.kcsm.org * Genre : Jazz Website: http://www.kcsm.org Public : yes Bitrate: 32kbit/s Cache size set to 320 KBytes Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) ICY Info: StreamTitle='';StreamUrl=''; Cache fill: 17.50% (57344 bytes) Audio only file format detected. ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 915 bits! AUDIO: 16000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 32.0 kbit/6.25% (ratio: 4000->64000) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== AO: [pulse] 16000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Video: no video Starting playback... mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 20 bits! A:6236.9 ( 1:43:56.8) of -0.0 (unknown) 0.3% 45% MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: enable_cache A:6236.9 ( 1:43:56.9) of -0.0 (unknown) 0.3% 45% Exiting... (Quit) [byers@f10 ~]$ that exiting was caused by my ctl-c so, mplayer working to play radio stream for me on f10: [root@f10 ~]# uname -a Linux f10.pacbell.net 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 19:03:24 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux albeit with text output much of which I can't make any sense of. ================ using a downloaded kcsm-kcsm-sc64.pls like this doesnt work: [byers@f10 Download]$ mplayer kcsm-kcsm-sc64.pls MPlayer SVN-r28461-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 7) mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing kcsm-kcsm-sc64.pls. Exiting... (End of file) [byers@f10 Download]$ it just quits, no sound ===== but using a downloaded kcsm-kcsm-sc64.pls like this does: [byers@f10 Download]$ mplayer -playlist kcsm-kcsm-sc64.pls MPlayer SVN-r28461-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 7) mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing http://sc1.abacast.com:8240. Resolving sc1.abacast.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: sc1.abacast.com Resolving sc1.abacast.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server sc1.abacast.com[216.218.147.60]: 8240... Name : KCSM Jazz 91 * The Bay Area's Jazz Station * Stream 264 * Listener Supported * Jazz 91 * www.kcsm.org Genre : Jazz Website: http://www.kcsm.org Public : yes Bitrate: 64kbit/s Cache size set to 320 KBytes Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) ICY Info: StreamTitle='';StreamUrl=''; Cache fill: 15.00% (49152 bytes) Audio only file format detected. ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 999 bits! AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 8000->88200) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== AO: [pulse] 22050Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Video: no video Starting playback... mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 13 bits! A: 23.8 (23.7) of 0.0 (unknown) 0.4% 45% MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: enable_cache A: 23.8 (23.8) of 0.0 (unknown) 0.4% 45% Exiting... (Quit) [byers@f10 Download]$ ============= so the cmdline operation of mplayer does work for me and no skips! [unlike totem which has a gui, but lots of skips] mplayer with a gui that worked, with its own volume control would be nice but for now I am happy thanks much to Tim, and Antonio Jack -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines