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Happy new year all of you. I read about DVD on Linux. It soundet real
difficult with deferent encoding for US and Europe and many settings
to do. Is mplayer able to just play the DVD if I got a readable DVD
drive?

/mikkel

2008/1/3, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>:
> http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/classrad.tgz
>
> For any linux with either mplayer or mpg123, to listen to online radio
> broadcasts in mp3 format.  Mplayer also does wma (.asf, .asx) and ogg
> and playlists (.pls).  You may need to add cook.so codec for realplayer.
>
> Mostly 24 kbit/sec, a few each 20 and 32kbit, for dialup access.
> About 20 stations that play classical music, some also jazz or NPR news,
> which worked today but may be busy once in a while.
>
> Unzip to some place on the path such as /user/local/bin.  Contains a
> script 'rad' that lets you type the number of a webcasting station, and
> the scripts used by this main script, which require mplayer (also at my
> site, mplayer4.tgz, no dependencies).  Scripts ending in 'm' need mplayer,
> the others work with mpg123 but don't have much of a buffer so don't sound
> as good.
>
> About 20 classical stations, mostly US, on each Australia, New Zealand,
> Turkey, Peru.  Please contribute others from Europe (where everything I
> found was either talk or too fast).  I listed the broadcast rate
> (kbit/sec) and the KHz (recording quality).  Some stations start with
> 8KHz introductory messages that sound like they are underwater.
>
> 128KHz is supposed to be near FM quality, but the 22Khz of most of these
> stations sounds better to me than most of the FM I hear from our nearest
> classical stations (50-75 miles from here).  24 kbit/sec lets you type
> email while listening, 32 does not (using 56 modem at 40 or so actual
> connection speed).
>
> The 32KHz stations (32kbit/sec) cut out more.  They are at the end of the
> list.
>
> I have lynx.cfg set to use mplayer, but it won't work at mms:// sites, for
> which you need mplayer directly.  .pls sites need -playlist but in most
> cases I managed to find a direct link to the mp3 file.
>
> Mplayer will also play webcast TV programs.  See the archives for a list
> of low bandwidth ones that display in 3" diagonal 'screen'.
> And DVD movies.  What else will it do?
>
> Let it snow. (We got nearly half a meter in the last couple days).
>
> Sindi
>
> keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
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