Many thanks for your comments.

With Radio 3 only 192kps is available. There is no lower bitrate. I tried again just now with my WinXP box and it too gave trouble. It works now, as does my hardy box! I guess the problem was not my end after all! I was wondering if the bitrate was significant. I must have had too much faith in Auntie. I’d not tried to listen to her in Ubuntu before.

All the Best for 2010.

I’m a newbie using Hardy. The BBC iPlayer streams work for me… all except BBC Radio 3. The player is silent and eventually I get an insufficient bandwidth message. The BBC test gives me an all ok report. I suspect that the Radio 3 bit rate is non-standard and not compatible with the version 9 Flash Player that handles the other streams ok. It won’t update to version 10 (in Firefox).

Has anyone got any answers?

Thanks

problem for me is that I actually use a Power PC Apple with Debian and hence the BBC linux iPlayer is not an option – unless someone’s planning on cross compiling it ??? :-)

to be fair, i only listen to the radio anyway so mplayer handles it well enough but it would be nice to see an open source ‘iPlayer’ using Vorbis Ogg or something as opposed to Real (or just streaming Ogg for the player of your choice would be nice). Same applies to Spotify. “Use Wine” doesn’t really cut the mustard for me.

save as radio.sh and call it with ./radio.sh 1 (radio 1) .. ./radio.sh 6 (six music), you get the idea. There’s fancy stuff out there but mplayer handles real player streams just fine :-)

#!/bin/bash
function tunein {
reply=`printf “GET \`printf “GET /iplayer/console/$1 HTTP/1.1\nHOST: www.bbc.co.uk\n\n” | nc -q 3 www.bbc.co.uk 80 | egrep -o “http://.*\.ram” | uniq | sed ‘s/http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk//’\` HTTP/1.1\nHOST: www.bbc.co.uk\n\n” | nc -q 3 www.bbc.co.uk 80`
if [[ "$reply" =~ "301 Moved" ]] || [[ "$reply" =~ "302 Moved" ]]
then
printf “GET `echo “$reply” | egrep -o “http://.*\.ram” | uniq | sed ‘s/http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk//’` HTTP/1.1\nHOST: www.bbc.co.uk\n\n” | nc -q 3 www.bbc.co.uk 80 | grep rtsp | xargs -0 mplayer
else
echo “$reply” | grep rtsp | xargs -0 mplayer
fi
}
function usage {
printf ‘radio — arguments 1=(radio 1) 2=(radio 2) … 6=(sixmusic)\n’
}
if [ $# != 1 ] || [ $1 = "-h" ]
then
usage
exit 0
fi
case “$1″ in
’1′)
tunein radio1
;;
’2′)
tunein radio2
;;
’3′)
tunein radio3
;;
’4′)
tunein radio4
;;
’5′)
tunein fivelive
;;
’6′)
tunein sixmusic
;;
*)
usage
;;
esac

I’m really looking forward to this week’s release of Ubuntu.

A Stumble for your efforts :)

VLC can use;I’ve uploaded the files; You can download them from http://www.tupple.net/radio/ I’ve done BBC1,2,3 and 4 and open any of them with vlc. It sometimes takes a few seconds to connect.

I have realplayer installed, but clicking on play button does nowt. I’ve also got the mplayer plugin installed… bit stuck.

Is it possible to just have the feed URLs to use in an external player??

I am using a Compaq Pressario and my tech friend thinks it is a hardware problem or TCP.

Any help would be most welcome. It is the feature l miss most since switching from windows to linux.

http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helix/builds/?category=realplay-current

It seems stable enough to me, I’ve been using it for a while and have had no problems with stability. Sadly although installation is easy, there isn’t an easy way to uninstall it.

(at least I assume this is different from the one you’re talking about – I must confess to having found the free Helix *server* rather useful in the past..)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RealplayerInstallationMethods

If you don’t want to buy a Squeezebox hardware player, either use the Java SoftSqueeze or I’m using SqueezeSlave plus the ‘Moose’ windows front end.

It does rather more than just allow you to listen to the BBC. It will manage your whole music library and integrate with iTunes if you really want.