[clug] Streaming ABC radio

[Robert Edwards]

On 27/08/10 11:39, Robert Edwards wrote:
> On 27/08/10 11:26, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
>> On 27 August 2010 11:23, Robert Edwards<bob at cs.anu.edu.au> wrote:
>>> On 27/08/10 11:00, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 27 August 2010 10:55, Robert Edwards<bob at cs.anu.edu.au> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hadn't thought of VLC, but I will need some hand-holding.
>>>>>
>>>>> VLC says (when "pointed at
>>>>> http://www.abc.net.au/canberra/includes/winstream.asx"):
>>>>>
>>>>> "No suitable decoder module:
>>>>> VLC does not support the audio or video format "undf". Unfortunately
>>>>> there
>>>>> is no way for you to fix this."
>>>>>
>>>>> Doesn't sound like it thinks I have much chance of success.
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm.... maybe you're missing a compile-time option to VLC (e.g.
>>>> win32codecs)? I'll try it when I get home tonight to see if it works
>>>> there.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So, I am running on Lucid and I have the following VLC packages:
>>>
>>> # dpkg --get-selections | grep vlc
>>> libvlc2 install
>>> libvlccore0 install
>>> libvlccore2 install
>>> vlc install
>>> vlc-data install
>>> vlc-nox install
>>> vlc-plugin-jack install
>>> vlc-plugin-pulse install
>>> vlc-plugin-sdl install
>>>
>>> # apt-cache search win32 vlc
>>> #
>>>
>>> I can't see any other win32 vlc-related packages that I might
>>> install (unless they are from a PPA somewhere).
>>
>> First result when googling "win32codecs":
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75278
>>
>> (In Gentoo, there's an actual package of that name...)
>>
>
> Thanks Ivan. Steve found the same article for me. My google-foo is
> nowhere near as good. I tried googling "vlc play wma stream" which
> took me off on a yet another series of wild goose chases.
>

Me again (last one). Actually, the link that Steve found wasn't the
5 year-old Ubuntu thread that Google turned up for Ivan, but the link
to Medibuntu (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu ), which
includes the win32codecs in the non-free repository.

But a pang of conscience overcame me as I was about to add that
repository to my machine and I decided not to proceed with
installing the win32codecs after all. I don't want to have non-free
codecs on my machine in order to listen to my (tax-funded) public
broadcaster. Maybe I'll take up Alex's suggestion and write that letter.

I'll just have to try harder to find the source of that interference
on my AM band. Or maybe setup an AM receiver somewhere else and then
stream it to my house using Ogg or some other free format (I wonder if
ABC legal would have a problem with that?).

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.