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Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
>
> I searched for mplayerplug-in and found only that one 
> version.  Perhaps it should be spelled differently.

http://www.linuxpackages.net/search_view.php?by=name&name=mplayerplug-in&ver=

> Firefox does have the advantage here.  
> (Is there some way to remove the icons in the toolbars?).

As I said before, right-click on icon and edit
the resultant config screen.

> How do I use the plugin after copying the two files 
> to /plugins and /components?

Restart Firefox, then enter about:plugins 

> mplayer directly will not play KOSU Oklahoma
> mms://kwms.kosu.okstate.edu/Live
> It is missing some codec.  

I get a connection timeout.  Nothing to do with codec.

> mplayer does not seem to handle smil (Lyric radio Ireland)

That smil file is a playlist file.  The actual URL is:
rtsp://live2.rte.ie/redundant/1920.ra

> It must have taken you longer to write this script 
> than I spent compiling!

It took around half an hour to write and debug the script.  
Writing bash scripts is fun.  Compiling complicated 
source code is boring (at best) or extremely frustrating.

> Does it take noticeably longer to start playing 
> streaming audio with this script?  

No.  There is obviously a delay while nslookup queries 
your DNS server; however, mplayer would experience the 
same delay if it had to do the DNS query.  So the script 
itself slows things down a bit, but then mplayer starts 
faster.

Cheers,
Steven