Re: BBC real audio no go with PDA ?
From: Jeff H (jeffmplsmn_at_comcast.net)
Date: 04/10/04
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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 23:11:51 GMT
The RealPlayer for the PPC does have issues with certain NAT firewalls. It
won't stream not matter what you try. I used to have that problem but now I
don't with a Netgear access point. Now I can stream the BBC on my PPC over
Wi-Fi and bluetooth.
For me the best method is to go the text only version of the BBC. Scroll
down to Radio. Find the BBC stream you want to listen to. Once you click
on, for example, "Listen Live to Radio 2," it will say that you are now
listening to Radio 2 Live, although you really won't be on the PPC. But
right under the "You are listening to Radio 2 Live," you'll see a choice to
listen using the stand-alone RealPlayer. Clicking on that link will prompt
you to download a small file. Once downloaded the RealPlayer will open and
you'll be streaming, in this case BBC 2.
The file will usually be downloaded to the My Documents folder. For BBC 2
the file is fmg2.ram. This .ram file contains the rtsp URL for BBC 2. The
next time you want to listen to BBC 2 live, just click on this file and BBC
2 should be again streaming live, provided that the BBC didn't change the
URL. However, I've had BBC 7 bookmarked for a month on my phone and that
URL is still valid.
Hope this helps.
"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:406b2f38.12073570@news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Yes, it seems to be a known proble. Eric Hicks wrote earlier that the
> player doesn't support http streams, only rtsp streams. Although some
> video and audio on the BBC site comes from a rtsp (realserver), it
> usually is handed off through a SMIL link, and real for PPC doesn't
> support those *either* :-P
>
> It's a shame cause I had high hopes for the player as an alternative
> to wmp. Only wmp stream I can find on the BBC site is for radio4.
>
> HTH
> Neil.
>
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:45:18 +0100, "no one important"
> <no_one@home.here> wrote:
>
> >Are the BBC aware that none of their links ie Radio 2 etc will not play
with
> >PPC's real audio player ?
> >
> >Can anyone recommend another type of player which will play them ? ie a
PPC
> >version of Jet Audio would be good
> >
> >
>
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