streaming internet radio player?

[vinceASPECT]

Hello

is there a lightweight internet audio stream player extension for TCL?

Does it execute from a command terminal...? 

i have previously used the Gui/ Pstreamer tool in Puppy Linux
to play streaming internet radio stations. You simply add the desired
url and then Pstreamer opens up your media player to play that url
(e,g, gzine player)

thanks

Vince.

[hiro]

I use mpg123.

[vinceASPECT]

Thanks for that recommendation

Vince.

[OldAdamUser2]

I use xmms. It's old, and won't play ever streaming station, but it is still very good.

[vinceASPECT]

mpg123 is very good.

Thanks.

Do you know if mpg123 plays streaming video?....or do you know of
any lightweight movie stream playing tools?

thanks

Vince.

[curaga]

mpg123 only plays mp3/2/1 audio.

You don't get much lighter than mplayer-nodeps for video.

[vinceASPECT]

Hello,

oh, i see then.

My TCL did not like some tiny aspect of VLC. Sound aspects.

i will continue trying to get Smplayer and mplayer to work in unison.

Mplayer often says my PC is too slow to play a stream, but continues to play it...!

The sound and video are not in sync. But i know this speed thing  is not an issue
because mplayer, when properly configured, works perfectly with the same streams
on this PC with a similar OS to TCL ......while having less free ram.

THe "smplayer gui" has features for syncing audio with video
and this is of interest to me in tcl.

Does anybody know the "piesta de resistance" of command line arguments for
mplayer so that it will play "anything" without a hitch?

My video card is a RAGE mobility by ati. It has 8 megs of memory and seems like
a reasonable video chip. Pentium 3 mobile 800 mhz cpu and 256 ram.

Like i say, this stuff works perfectly in other similar OS's to tcl. So this prooves
it's just a configuration excercise with tcl and mplayer to achieve success.

I have tried many arguments with mplayer at the command line....but non specifically
regarding the video rendering plug in...." -vm ffmpeg" and things like -liblabvot and other
arguments.

I tried the argument about "audio delay" adjustment but it does not appear to do anything.

thanks

Vince.

[Rich]

Hi vinceASPECT
Boot up the "similar OS" and start mplayer. Then open a terminal and type  ps -aux | grep mplayer
That should give you the command line arguments that where used to invoke mplayer.

[vinceASPECT]

Rich,

that's real helpful indeed.

I am fussy and i want my internet video streaming inside TCL. This is why
i am messing about with it.

See, i have a clean TCL and installed alsa and all it's deps...but alsa simply does not
find my USB soundcard.

Alsa on the other similar OS finds the USB soundcard no problem. It's the same tool
that is used....Alsaconf.    (wonder why TCl does not find this usb souncard)

when TCL boots it always says BAD DEVICE 49 usb sound.......but the USB sound
still works at the desktop using OSS.

Clearly my USB soundcard works perfectly with alsa....i have seen it in an similar OS to tcl. What can make it work correctly inside TCL?

i could go and read all the stuff about configuring Alsa....but i seem to recall i already
did this and nothing improved.

It tried plugging in the sound card after boot...that made no difference to alsa conf.

hmmm

You see, many threads mention that "mplayer" largest bug bear is bad sound drivers messing up sync and timing. The threads mention OSS as poor.

My other distro uses Alsa when using mplayer

thanks

Vince.

Vince.

[curaga]

The magic option would generally be "-framedrop", and to make sure you have XV acceleration (Xorg).

[vinceASPECT]

Hello,

uh ...i am not sure what XV is......or XV acceleration (Xorg)

I only see a command line and help tips when i execute mplayer.

i will check arguments again

Vince.

[curaga]

If you use Xorg and the driver supports XV, mplayer will use it automatically.

[vinceASPECT]

Yes

i do use xorg here. At least i believe so. Other distros always choose xorg
by default and it works fine. I presuem TCL is also using xorg.

As for the "if the driver supports it" part. I am not sure. Smplayer seems
to choose XV by default.

VInce

[Rich]

hi vinceASPECT
Since Puppy choked on  ps -aux | grep mplayer  try  ps | grep mplayer  instead and see if that
produces better results.

[hiro]

On tinycorelinux default is not Xorg, but Xvesa.