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phantom stream with linux?

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  • 30-12-2004 2:49am
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    madmanmoon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭


    Just wondering if anyone listens to phantom on their linux box. If so, what do you use to get the stream? I keep trying codecs that don't seem to work for me.


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    McGonagles
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    I tried it with something called asfplayer a year or so ago, under SuSE (it's a regular
    SuSE package), and apparently MPlayer will play most Windoze Media formats.

    I don't have enough of a need to listen to the Phantom web stream to mess about with
    Linux software (or just give up and use a Windoze PC).
    Whereas I can happily surf MP3 and Ogg streams from all over the world using xmms.

    You could try lobbying Phantom to use a more open streaming format (anything is more
    open than WMA/ASF/ASX, MP3 sucks less than Real, and Ogg sucks less than MP3),
    but the choice of format might be up to Irish Broadband, who are doing the streaming.


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