Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Playing Internet radio feeds

["John Russell" <jjrussell gmail com>]

On 12/1/06, Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 19:26 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 07:47:47PM +1100, Peter Anderson wrote:
> > > Hi!  I am relatively new to Linux and am trying to get Rhythmbox to play
> > > some favourite radio stations.  They can be reached via
> > > www.abc.net.au/radio and have options for Windows media, Real Player and
> > > some have MP3.  File formats are .asx and .ram
> > >
> > > Can these be processed by Rhythmbox?
> >
> > The MP3 streams will work if you have a GStreamer MP3 decoder plugin
> > installed.  Some of them give HTTP 404 errors, but hopefully those are
> > just temporary failures.  I'd suggest you use the MP3 streams wherever
> > possible since they're the most common type of stream and it's pretty
> > easy to install an MP3 decoder plugin on most linux distributions.
> >
> > The Windows Media streams might work if you have a GStreamer mms and
> > windows media decoder plugins installed (ffmpeg or maybe pitfdll + win32
> > codecs).  They don't seem to play properly for me, though.
> >
> > The Real Player streams won't work until GStreamer's RTSP support
> > matures.
> Strange ! i use radioteentaal.com with realmedia feed. It works like a
> charm for me
>
> using rhythmbox v 0.9.5 with pitfdll+ffmpeg+win32 codec ( I dont care
> which codecs are being used/lazy )

I've been unable to find a working version of pitfdll for
gstreamer-0.10+.  only for 0.8.  Does it work on gstreamer-0.10?