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Hi, sorry if this has been covered in another forum but I'm a relative newbie to all this! I am part of a radio station that streams online using a stream that is "optimised for windows media player 9" and as such when I stream it using Xine the bitrate is very low. In windows I could stream at about 128kbps and I was wondering if there is some way to stream a .asx file at a similar sort of bitrate using Xine or some other player. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
The stream is at union.surrey.ac.uk/gu2live.asx. I think you might be right about the codecs but I dont know which ones are relavent to .asx files. Where can I find a set of up to date codecs for xine? Thanks for your help, I'm finding Linux to be superb compared to windows, except a few things prove tricky to get working!
Go into the Settings -> Setup -> GUI -> Configuration Experience Level. Set this to 'Master of the Known Universe'. Hit 'Apply'
Now go to the 'Media' tab. About 3/4 of the way down, there's an 'MMS Protocol' option. Change that to 'TCP'. Hit 'Apply'.
Enjoy your high bitrate radio.
Dave
P.S. Get the latest codecs from http://ftp3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ Grab the 'EssentialXXXXX.tar.bz2' package. Unpack it and put its contents into /usr/lib/win32 (you may have to create that directory yourself). Restart Xine and you're good to go.
While we're plugging Uni radio stations, have a look at Glasgow Uni's (my old Uni, I graduated 2 years ago) radio station (ogg vorbis stream, no less!). It relaunches every year when they get their new broadcast license. They get to broadcast all over Glasgow, but only for a couple of months each year.
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