On Saturday 26 Jun 2004 17:59 pm, Mike Roy wrote:
Hello everyone: In reading these posts about RealPlayer, etc., I decided to try the BBC link, etc. It does work but I think you need to hit a menu item that is currently available. Most menu items simply show:
'for more information . . .
But, if the menu item is 'live', then the button reads
'Listen using stand-alone RealPlayer . . .
A prompt then appears to 'load RealPlayer, etc., and then the player does work. I'm really new at this so I may have missed something. Hope this helps,
This is right, but is only part of the story. The radio streams are accessed through a popup control page, which has an option to play in a separate realplayer window. The video streams are provided in an html wrapper page which only plays in the embedded player, although it's relatively easy to sniff the real url from the network. Some of the individual stations' sub-sites have separate streaming arrangements (bbc london being the one I know best as it's the station I listen to most.) Also, the servers have great difficulty serving enough streams at peak demand and do not fail gracefully. They tend to fall over rather than rejecting new connections, and the streams can be very choppy at times. For me, it all works OOTB with FireFox as packaged by SuSE, but is very flaky in Konq. YMMV of course. Dylan -- "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" -Dark Helmet