Intel to cut Linux out of the content market

[Jeremy C. Reed]

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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