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Streaming Audio

Since the first Zauruses came on the scene, it's been possible to listen to streaming audio.

How well this works depends on a few things, but primarily it's the quality of the link from the Zaurus to the internet, both bandwidth/throughput and low latency/jitter; in general the Zaurus has enough processor power to handle the task of decompressing mp3 and ogg/ although it may stutter if you try and do too much that's processor or I/O intensive.

With the 860 and faster processors, I have been able to listen to radio streams of 128kbps mp3, using wireless networking or usb networking.

There are many streams listed on www.shoutcast.com, simply save the .pls file and then open it in Kino2, or, read the file at the command shell and then open the stream using "mplayer", e.g. "mplayer mms://music.example.com/radio?xxx"

With streams from commercial radio stations such as ClassicFM in the UK, one of the tricky things can be to get the name of the stream, as many websites wrap the stream links up in javascripted pages, so it can be necessary to use a PC to view the source and trace it through to the final mms:// or rtsp:// etc url.

Here are some useful playlists:

  • classicfm 
 [playlist]
 numberofentries=1
 File1=http://81.20.48.50/classicfm?MSWMExt=.asf
 Title1=ClassicFM
 Length1=-1
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August 12th, 2010, posted by neill1234atyahoodotcom All the below worked fine for me today (the last, BBC link, works too: there's an announcement from Vermont the first 10 secs though).... classicFM 

 http://81.20.48.50/classicfm?MSWMExt=.asf

NHPR concord 

 http://nhpr-sc.streamguys.us:80/

Black Country 

 http://media-ice.musicradio.com:80/BeaconBlackCountryMP3Low

Deutsche Welle 

 http://c13010-ls.i.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/dwworldlive-live/13010dwrde64.mp3

Smash Hits 

 http://icy-e-01.sharp-stream.com:80/smashhits.mp3

BBC Radio 

 http://vprbbc.streamguys.net:8000/vprbbc24.mp3

I just accepted the pls file downloads from the stations to my HD, opened them in Notepad, extracted the URL's. Can be done with many mp3 feeds. I used feeds up to 128kbps over a 802.11b network with perfect results after I opened the URL in konsole via: mplayer "URLyouwanttoopen"

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Streaming Video

Can someone post some working URLs which will play in Kino2


August 12th, 2010, posted by neill1234atyahoodotcom

All the below worked fine for me today (the last, BBC link, works too: there's an announcement from Vermont the first 10 secs though)....

classicFM 

  http://81.20.48.50/classicfm?MSWMExt=.asf

NHPR concord 

  http://nhpr-sc.streamguys.us:80/

Black Country 

  http://media-ice.musicradio.com:80/BeaconBlackCountryMP3Low

Deutsche Welle 

  http://c13010-ls.i.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/dwworldlive-live/13010dwrde64.mp3

Smash Hits 

  http://icy-e-01.sharp-stream.com:80/smashhits.mp3

BBC Radio 

  http://vprbbc.streamguys.net:8000/vprbbc24.mp3

I just accepted the pls file downloads from the stations to my HD, opened them in Notepad, extracted the URL's. Can be done with many mp3 feeds. I used feeds up to 128kbps over a 802.11b network with perfect results after I opened the URL in konsole via: mplayer "URLyouwanttoopen"

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