windy.com can be played: attention Freg Nowak

[Cheryl Homiak]

This was a post from back in May, so maybe you figured it out by now but 
if not, here's how you can get that stream to play.

1. Go to www.live.com and download the tar.gz file for the streaming 
media. Follow the instructions given onsite for installing it. By the way, 
you won't need to worry about libavcodec as it will already be present in 
the player i'm recommending you use.

2. Download and/or compile mplayer. This includes getting the codec 
package that has "all" at the beginning and you can also get the fonts 
file of your choice (don't know if that is necessary). I really recommend 
that you use either 
cvs directly or go to the cvs directory in the mirrors and get the latest 
mplayer tar ball; it will have current on it and be at the bottom of the 
directory 
though the directory you end up with when you unzip it is actually 
MPlayer-{date} (whatever the date of it is will be appended to the 
mPlayer-).
Do ./configure --enable-live
then do make and install per usual.

3. Run mplayer with either of these urls:
http://www.wnnd.com/lie/wnnd/.asx
or
rtsp://live.bonnevillechicago.com/wnnd
or
mms://live.bonnevillechicago.com/wnnd
The first two urls do require the -playlist switch; the mms:// does not.
If you do a >error.txt 2>&1 with this and read the resulting file, you'll 
see some object unknown comments but it does play.
The way I tracked down this url was as follows:
I used links the chain (links2 with javascript support) to go to 
www.windy100.com/listen.php
I hit enter on the link that says "click here to listen live"; there are 
other links that just say "listen live" but you probably already know they 
don't go anywhere helpful.
You hit enter to allow the script.
This takes you to a link numbered 1 that says embed. At this point, you 
can either try the url shown at the bottom of your screen up through the 
.asx but without the question mark and following stuff, or you can hit 
enter on the embed and choose the display option, where you find all sorts 
of urls, including the rtsp and mms url. the mms:// url is probably the 
most direct as it doesn't require the -playlist switch (the other two do 
require it).
The mms:// url shouldn't necessarily need the live.com installation; 
however, now that I have that installed I can open the station audio 
directly when I hit the embed link; this can be done if one has mplayer 
added to associations in links. Before adding the live.com install, I 
could not do this.
Hth; ENJOY!!!

-- 
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."