[sllug-members]: X96 Listen Online

[Chad]

On 8/29/07, Jason Edwards <jtanium at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe X96 uses a WMV stream, not a flash one...
>
> I can't tell you exactly what to do Gentoo, but basically you need to
> install the win32 codecs (which include WMV support).
>
> FWIW, on Ubuntu (which uses Totem) I installed the
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad package which includes WMV codecs.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jason
>
> On 8/29/07, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I know that some of you out there listen to x96.  How do you get it
> > working in Linux (Running Gentoo, have KDE/Gnome/XFCE4 and have tried
> > Firefox and Konq (changed userAgent too) but it didn't work)?  I have
> > flash installed on Firefox, but when I pop up the window it goes
> > immediately to "stopped" and if I hit play, about 3 seconds go by and
> > it returns to a "stopped" state.
> >
> > Any hints?
> >
> > -Chad
> > ______________________________________________________________________

Thanks for the response!  I didn't think it was a codec issue, I
thought I had 'everything' installed for media playback.  I'll check
that, I should have done that first.

Thanks!

-Chad