windy.com can be played: attention Freg Nowak

[Gregory Nowak]

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Thanks Cheryl. 

About a week and a half after my post, I discovered that their embedded
stream had been discontinued, and upon going to their web site,
discovered that when you activate the actual listen live link for the
stream, windows media player got invoked, instead of the web page with
the embedded player.

Doing some looking at the html source, I figured out from where I
needed to download the asx file. After looking at the .asx file, I
extracted from that the mss:// URL that is for the actual stream, and
created a bash alias called windy100 that invokes mplayer with that
mss:// URL, and it plays just fine. Thanks again.

Greg


On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 04:19:50PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> 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."
> 
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