Mainly for my own reference: It's possible to stream BBC radio through the 'radio' part of Rhythmbox (and this is preferable to the iPlayer because of Ubuntu's slightly flaky flash support).
To use it just add a new 'Internet radio station', e.g. Radio 1 is: mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio1/radio1_nb_e1s1
Comments (2)
External articles that may be of interest:
Full video of a talk Rasmus gave at Digg HQ on PHP performance. After a brief look at PHP 5.3's new features he sets about improving the performance of an out-of-the-box Wordpress installation.
Adobe have released an alpha of their 64-bit flash player for Linux (I believe this is the first 64-bit player they've done on any platform, it's not available for Windows or Mac yet). And it works great. It may be an alpha but so far I've found it considerably more stable than the released 32-bit wrapper version. It also uses considerably less CPU power. Easy installation instructions via. this blog entry.
The most interesting thing about this announcement is that MS say the system will work in Firefox and Safari as well as IE. The Microsoft of 10 years ago would have used proprietary IE only code and used it as a way to leverage IE market share.
Video of a very interesting talk by Gerd Leonhard on the future of the media industry, and content on the Internet.
Some interesting ideas about how web browsing might look in the future (watch the first video).
Comments
09:02, on 19/6/2009
It says connecting but the radio ever plays..
The current urls can be found here:
http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/finding_programmes/real_wma_streams
cheers
00:01, on 28/12/2009
http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/streaming_programmes/local_radio_streams
Add Comment