[K12OSN] howto for streaming content -- from NPR

[Rita Gibson]

> 
> Hello everyone. Hope your preparations for a new school year are going well!
> 
> I have a new High School Science teacher that uses NPR a lot in her lesson
> plans. I have sound working on three types of terminals (new LTSP Term150's,
> GX1/GXa, and Vectra 66)  in the building now, with sound working with games
> like tuxtype and on some websites (must be using flash), but I have not
> figured out how to play streaming media from websites like NPR or, for
> example, a local talk radio www.850koa.com. 
> Also, I can play mp3's from a command line mp3 player, but not from a the
> gui based player in the menu (can't remember the name of that player now),
> and cannot even recall the error message at the moment, but it is something
> about a/the mixer and recreate it once I get into the building. The next
> item to figure out, was streaming content, and now I have a teacher that has
> asked me about it.
> 
> Can anyone help me with getting streaming content to work, for example, the
> NPR website?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Rita Gibson
> RMSELTech
> 

Eric Brown wrote:

 > Hello Rita,
 >
 > I've had to work through this before.  I downloaded the streaming file to
 > the computer, then opened it up in XMMS.  It's not a very elegant 
workaround
 > at first, but the upside is that you don't have to open a browser 
window and
 > navigate to the website once you've downloaded the streaming file, 
you just
 > open the file in XMMS.
 >
 > I've only done this with .pls files, and I think real media files.  While
 > others could speak more knowledgeably on this, I'm not sure if it 
would work
 > with windows media streaming.
 >
 > Good luck.
 >

I have found RealPlayer for Linux but haven't tried to download it and 
see if it works on ltsp. I would not be opposed to downloading the files 
and having them available in a shared file for the students to access. 
It would certainly minimize usage on our DSL lines. I don't really know 
how to download streaming content. Wow! I feel so old, I'm 
streaming-media challenged!

Rita Gibson
RMSELTech