audio weirdness

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 00:06 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Monday 26 March 2007 16:28, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > I recently installed the remi firefox2 on my FC4 machine, It works
> > better then the old firefox in many respoect but one thing is
> > frusatrating me.
> >
> > If I go to to www.npr.org I can play the program stream which plays with
> > mplayer. But if I try to play one of the npr program audio streams
> > mplayer opens and processes the audio input but no continuous sound
> > comes out. Just instants of sound from time to time. Other radio music
> > stations play but not npr.
> >
> > I really want to play the audio stream with realplay but when I feed the
> > strea, of realplay it complains of a missing audio type,
> > Any ideas.
> 
> > "I am your density." -- George McFly in "Back to the Future"
> 
> I've just tried it, and it seems to want to use WM. This works ok as I have 
> Mplayerplugin installed.
> 
freviously I have chosen to usw WM to play npr and it has worked. But
now it only works on the program stream not the stream drom a particular
program. This is an FC4 machine. On my FC6 machine both streams work but
it uses realplayer, So I am frustrated. But what is new about that. I
have a DSL line so the dialup problem is not my problem.
> I'm only on dialup, but the hourly newscast plays ok, and so does the NPR 
> Program Stream.
> 
> I've been on sites that give you the choice of Realplayer, or Wm. Sometimes 
> one works , and the other doesn't.
> 
> I think you just have to go with the one that works. For me, as long as I can 
> hear some speech, or some music, I couldn't care less if it's using 
> Realplayer, Windows media player, Flash, or whatever.
> 
> Saying that though, I've just tried to play music from the site, and as I've 
> said. I am on dialup, and am just getting 1 or 2 seconds of music at a time, 
> followed by some buffering, then a bit more music.
> 
> Too much bandwidth needed for the music, but speech works ok.
> 
> Nigel.
> 
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