Brian Tew writes: >Yes, mplayer can't follow the redirects and trplayer can. >Live365.com modifies the url depending on if you are registered and/or a v i p > member. > >The curl command can find the url that mplayer needs. Many, many thanks. I did not know about curl. It looks like that could be the beginning of a cron job to retrieve podcasts. I have just installed it and have got the "Science Show" from Radio Australia playing nicely as I sit here. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list