Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] help with bbc on rhythmbox please

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:52 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2007-07-23, 10:13 GMT, nick stewart wrote:
> >  I cannot find a URL for the BBC World Service, as required for 
> >  Rhythmbox=
> 
> There are more live streams of BBC Worldservice than one, so here 
> are the URLs.
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/tx/nb/live_news_au_nb.ram
> and
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/tx/nb/live_infent_au_nb.ram
> 
> > ! And will the world service play if i enter a url?
> 
> well, unfortuantely no gstreamer-based player will play you these 
> streams (and don't even think about playing Windows Media streams 
> -- they are using WMA 9 Voice, which is not supported by 
> anything).  The problem is bug 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319449 which is still 
> not solved.
> 
> Unfortunately, your only choice now is mplayer (or -xine based 
> player -- totem-xine could work, or if you compile rhythmbox 
> yourself with xine support; apparently it is not packaged for 
> Ubuntu either).

There hasn't been a xine-lib backend to Rhythmbox for a couple of years.

The code is waiting on identifying the original copyright holder for
"joschkas real tools". See:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341752

-- 
Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>