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It's that time of year again, the Le Mans 24 hours is this weekend. And yet again this year, Radio Le Mans have changed how they broadcast.
Short Version: I need a way to play the Radio Lemans stream in Linux, preferably using a media player rather than a browser.
The stream is here.......
http://rlm08.0157.org/
(click Listen Live).
Long version...........
I got it to play on my laptop in firefox, using the ODDEST hack ever.....
While looking for the URL of a real stream I could pass to xine or mplayer, in the player window, I noticed that it specified the "simple" version of WMP, with the executable named "mplayer2". In pure frustration, I did
ln -s /usr/bin/mplayer /usr/bin/mplayer2
And the ruddy thing worked....firefox could then open the player window and sure enough the sound of GT cars and crazy English blokes came from my speakers. Now this is odd for two reasons.....first, obviously windows parses embedded stuff differently, so it's bizarre that the executable's name was even passed to the shell.....but more oddly even....the source of the player page actually says "x-mplayer2"......yet my link was just "mplayer2".
It definitely was not playing before I did this.
I tried the same trick on my desktop machine, the one with speakers worthy of 50,000 horse power rolling over the start line on Saturday afternoon, and it didn't work.
Can anyone extract a real URL from that page?
Or a way to pass the page to ,mplayer/realplay/xine?
At a push, I'll settle for a way to make FF or Opera play it.
It's either that, or keep the winbox on for about 30 hours straight, burning 200W idle, just for it to be a radio.
PS: I will be watching on Eurosport, but listening to RLM, been spending the 24hrs with them since 2000.
Short Version: I need a way to play the Radio Lemans stream in Linux, preferably using a media player rather than a browser.
The stream is here.......
http://rlm08.0157.org/
(click Listen Live).
Long version...........
I got it to play on my laptop in firefox, using the ODDEST hack ever.....
While looking for the URL of a real stream I could pass to xine or mplayer, in the player window, I noticed that it specified the "simple" version of WMP, with the executable named "mplayer2". In pure frustration, I did
ln -s /usr/bin/mplayer /usr/bin/mplayer2
And the ruddy thing worked....firefox could then open the player window and sure enough the sound of GT cars and crazy English blokes came from my speakers. Now this is odd for two reasons.....first, obviously windows parses embedded stuff differently, so it's bizarre that the executable's name was even passed to the shell.....but more oddly even....the source of the player page actually says "x-mplayer2"......yet my link was just "mplayer2".
It definitely was not playing before I did this.
I tried the same trick on my desktop machine, the one with speakers worthy of 50,000 horse power rolling over the start line on Saturday afternoon, and it didn't work.
Can anyone extract a real URL from that page?
Or a way to pass the page to ,mplayer/realplay/xine?
At a push, I'll settle for a way to make FF or Opera play it.
It's either that, or keep the winbox on for about 30 hours straight, burning 200W idle, just for it to be a radio.
PS: I will be watching on Eurosport, but listening to RLM, been spending the 24hrs with them since 2000.
