Published on
February 20, 2009 in
Christian, Linux, religious and slug.
Tags: 2009.0, Audio, Christian, FM103.2, Hope, Linux, Mandriva, Streaming.
I’ve been finding it harder these days with some content providers to connect to online media, due to them using proprietary formats.
Why can’t people just use ogg? Will respond to that another day.
I have been trying to get live streaming audio to work on Linux from http://hope1032.com.au (formerly FM103.2). They seem to being using wma2 inside asf.
The only successful application that I could find to accomplish this is VLC Media Player version 0.9.8a. The audio quality is great.
Thanks VLC developers for your hardwork.
My latest personal build for Icepodder for Mandriva 2008.1 Spring.
It is a simple aggregator and feeds are easily added. The Icepodder team have removed a lot of the old dependencies; pyxmms, python, libxml2.python. Updated from wxgtk2.6 to wxPythonGTK 2.8.
I have included Mandriva 2008.1 Spring build including source. Please give any feed back to the Icepodder developers as they love to hear how much you enjoy Icepodder.
RPM: Mandriva 2008. 1 Icepodder 5.4 personal build revision 65
SRPM: Mandriva 2008.1 Icepodder 5.4 personal build revision 65 source
To get the latest source:
svn co https://icepodder.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/icepodder icepodder
This is one of my favourite, straight down the line podcast applications for the Linux Platform. Loving it so much I have done a personal build for Mandriva.
It is a simple aggregator and feeds and easily added. The Icepodder team have removed a lot of the old dependencies; pyxmms, python, libxml2.python. It easily It now allows you to open downloads into Amarok or a media player of you choice.
So sharing my joy. I have posted my Mandriva 2008.1 build including source for you Mandriva users to use and abuse. Please give any feed back to the Icepodder developers as they love to hear how much you enjoy Icepodder.
RPM: Mandriva 2008. 1 Icepodder 5.4 personal build revision 64
SRPM: Mandriva 2008.1 Icepodder 5.4 personal build revision 64 source
To get the latest source:
svn co https://icepodder.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/icepodder icepodder
The beta program for ABC playback is now on-line. I registered early because, although it was stated that ABC playback would not work with Linux under flash, I did not believe the account. This also gave me the chance to see what us Linux users are missing out on.
Today I received confirmation back that I was successfully registered in the beta program and decided so see if what was stated was true.
Below are picture of my results using Firefox 2.0.0.13 with the flash plug-in on Mandriva 2008.1 RC2 . I also have proprietary codecs installed.
The interface seems to be very Elisa Media Center like and also very Youtube like in the selection of the content. The streaming video quality is ok, but could be slightly better.
It will be interesting to see what actual content is displayed in the final release. At the moment it is pretty much ‘The Bill’ and a few documentaries.
Overall the implementation is quite nice and I will probably use it frequently as I tend to miss some shows I like.