Don Crowder wrote: > On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:24:03 -0600 > herb cee <hc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi all >> I am trying to get a .wma link to play without success in VLC player. >> http://mapleton.wmlive.internapcdn.net/live_mapleton_vitalstream_com_kpigfm?PPID=4639&.wma > > Herb, it took a fairly long time to load, on my not-really-so-very-fast > DSL connection but it played just fine in my browser, in Noatun. I > copied the URL, closed the browser, opened VLC clicked on File/Open > Network Stream, clicked on HTTP, pasted in the URL and VLC started > playing the file right where Noatun left off. Very cool! > > I have, of course, long since added a multimedia repository to my > sources.list file and installed win32codecs. Another file that proved > helpful was libdvdcss2. > VLC has a lot of codecs included in the std package and I didn't know that it supported external codecs. So, thanks for that nugget! -- Lee Parmeter http://www.bubbasgeek.com "When it comes to Vista: just say NO! If you're not ready for Linux, buy a MAC!" - Lee Parmeter "God is not a republican or a democrat nor is His government a democracy!" - Lee Parmeter ______________________________________________________________________________ Highland Lakes Linux User Group (HLLUG): http://www.hllug.org HLLUG mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/hllug