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Originally Posted by edfick View Post
david04, is that with the default OS 2006?

edit: ok, sorry to ask another question, really appreciate the help so far. I got mplayer installed but can't figure out how to get it to stream a link. for example, this one
Code:
http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/KYWAM.pls
I read through the mplayer docs and tried some of the command lines, like putting mplayer before the url, but it doesnt work (I'm probably doing it wrong). Also, searched and read through a lot of threads here, but I still can't figure it out.
It's a little bit of a kludge, but you need to do it from an xterm shell, which means you also need to download the x-terminal app if you haven't already. But from the shell window the mplayer command would be:

mplayer -vo null -cache 256 -playlist [URL of STREAM]