[K12OSN] howto for streaming content -- from NPR

[Eric Brown]

Hello Rita,

I've had to work through this before.  I downloaded the streaming file to
the computer, then opened it up in XMMS.  It's not a very elegant workaround
at first, but the upside is that you don't have to open a browser window and
navigate to the website once you've downloaded the streaming file, you just
open the file in XMMS.

I've only done this with .pls files, and I think real media files.  While
others could speak more knowledgeably on this, I'm not sure if it would work
with windows media streaming. 

Good luck.

-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
Of Rita Gibson
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 10:27 AM
To: K12OSN
Subject: [K12OSN] howto for streaming content -- from NPR

Hello everyone. Hope your preparations for a new school year are going well!

I have a new High School Science teacher that uses NPR a lot in her lesson
plans. I have sound working on three types of terminals (new LTSP Term150's,
GX1/GXa, and Vectra 66)  in the building now, with sound working with games
like tuxtype and on some websites (must be using flash), but I have not
figured out how to play streaming media from websites like NPR or, for
example, a local talk radio www.850koa.com. 
Also, I can play mp3's from a command line mp3 player, but not from a the
gui based player in the menu (can't remember the name of that player now),
and cannot even recall the error message at the moment, but it is something
about a/the mixer and recreate it once I get into the building. The next
item to figure out, was streaming content, and now I have a teacher that has
asked me about it.

Can anyone help me with getting streaming content to work, for example, the
NPR website?

Thanks in advance,

Rita Gibson
RMSELTech

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