[MPlayer-users] Assistance needed playing an NPR stream

Sun Jul 10 06:25:38 CEST 2005

On 7/10/05, John McKee <jmmckee at flinthills.com> wrote:
> On this particular npr website (www.npr.org/programs/waitwait) there is a link to
> play the current show.  But, the link is a javascript to determine whether WM or
> RM should be used.  Is there some way to use this link with mplayer?
When I clicked the link in Firefox on Linux, I was given a .smil file
(npr1121.smil). Inside was some junk:

<smil>
<meta name="title" content="NPR Audio" />
<meta name="author" content="http://www.npr.org/" />
<meta name="copyright" content="2005 NPR" />
<body>
<audio src="rtsp://real.npr.na-central.speedera.net:80/real.npr.na-central/waitwait/20050702_waitwait.rm"
/>
</body>
</smil>

By giving mplayer the link
(rtsp://real.npr.na-central.speedera.net:80/real.npr.na-central/waitwait/20050702_waitwait.rm),
it was able to play it just fine.

I'm not sure how you'd select Windows Media format, though.

mplayer wouldn't play the .smil file, so maybe it just doesn't
understand them yet? Or maybe I'm not using a correctly-compiled
version.

HTH.

-Andy