On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Victor Odhner wrote:
> This evening I set up friend with a Linux distro, but it probably won't do
> him much good. I have been looking at online radio stations (I don't listen
> online myself, too busy working if I'm at the computer), and whatever media
> are offered, my media players won't play. But I'm sure I'm missing
> something, right? Some of these are called MP3 or RealPlayer, and I have
> these, and yet they won't play.
Any specific errors or messages beyond "they won't play"?
> My friend's PC has Windows XP but XP won't support his old sound card. Linux
> will, but it can't support the radio stations he's been using via Windows
> Media Player. I'm not a big multimedia fan, but again I would be interested
> in any pointers I could pass on to him.
I use gxine. It uses ffmpeg which supports some Windows Media formats.
Also consider using
http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ (which
works with gxine also).
Jeremy C. Reed
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