[MPlayer-users] Assistance needed playing an NPR stream

Kevin DeKorte kdekorte at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 10 15:21:28 CEST 2005


On Saturday 09 July 2005 10:25 pm, Andrew Haninger wrote:
> On 7/10/05, John McKee <jmmckee at flinthills.com> wrote:
> > On this particular npr website (www.npr.org/programs/waitwait) there is a
> > link to play the current show.  But, the link is a javascript to
> > determine whether WM or RM should be used.  Is there some way to use this
> > link with mplayer?
>
> When I clicked the link in Firefox on Linux, I was given a .smil file
> (npr1121.smil). Inside was some junk:
>
> <smil>
> <meta name="title" content="NPR Audio" />
> <meta name="author" content="http://www.npr.org/" />
> <meta name="copyright" content="2005 NPR" />
> <body>
> <audio
> src="rtsp://real.npr.na-central.speedera.net:80/real.npr.na-central/waitwai
>t/20050702_waitwait.rm" />
> </body>
> </smil>
>
>
> By giving mplayer the link
> (rtsp://real.npr.na-central.speedera.net:80/real.npr.na-central/waitwait/20
>050702_waitwait.rm), it was able to play it just fine.
>
> I'm not sure how you'd select Windows Media format, though.
>
> mplayer wouldn't play the .smil file, so maybe it just doesn't
> understand them yet? Or maybe I'm not using a correctly-compiled
> version.
>
> HTH.
>
> -Andy
>


Andy,

mplayerplug-in (http://mplayerplug-in.sf.net) handles SMIL files fine and will 
parse them and pass the media to mplayer. I tested the page above and it 
worked just by clicking on it.

Kevin
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