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buggsy2 is offline buggsy2
2007-09-03 , 18:50
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I missed Sunday's live NPR show of Car Talk, so naturally turned to my trusty 770 IT to listen to a recording of it. But http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/online.html has only some strange-to-me .smil file format which is not usable by my IT. Two possible solutions come to mind and I wonder what the group-think here would suggest:

- if a plugin exists for this type of file, install that. Advantage is that now all .smil files are available at their original sites. Disadvantage is that maybe said plugin doesn't exist (for a 770 anyway) or is buggy.

- find a website where someone has already converted the .smil files that I want to .mp3.

Why would NPR use such an odd format anyway?? --Bugged
 
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pipeline is offline pipeline
2007-09-03 , 20:09
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rtsp://go.rbn.com/cartalk/cartalk/demand/CT0735-07.ra

not sure if it works yet... im on desktop and saved smil to disk and opened with notepad to see that url... must be some podder format

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yep it works... by the way the smil is just a small text file linking to real audio stream

I linked the full segment, if you want the individual segments you will need to do the same to the other clips.
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rm -rf is offline rm -rf
2007-09-03 , 20:19
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Try this.

http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon....r_14116665.mp3
 
buggsy2 is offline buggsy2
2007-09-10 , 00:02
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Originally Posted by pipeline View Post
rtsp://go.rbn.com/cartalk/cartalk/demand/CT0735-07.ra
not sure if it works yet... im on desktop and saved smil to disk and opened with notepad to see that url... must be some podder format
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yep it works... by the way the smil is just a small text file linking to real audio stream
I linked the full segment, if you want the individual segments you will need to do the same to the other clips.
This is a great site. But I can't figure out what the filename is for the full segment. I did figure out what the next week's (well, this week's) new individual segments are, but it's annoying to listen a few minutes then load the next segment.
 
ichmoimeyo is offline ichmoimeyo
2007-09-12 , 08:00
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Originally Posted by buggsy2 View Post
...but it's annoying to listen a few minutes then load the next segment.
You need MPlayer installed and then use the wonderful KMPlayer GUI and paste the .smil file into the address bar of KMPlayer:
http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/show.smil

This will stream all the segments
 
buggsy2 is offline buggsy2
2007-09-16 , 23:59
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Originally Posted by ichmoimeyo View Post
You need MPlayer installed and then use the wonderful KMPlayer GUI and paste the .smil file into the address bar of KMPlayer:
http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/show.smil
This will stream all the segments
Still no joy! It lists all the segments, but only pops up a window a few times: Buffering w/o ever playing anything.

mplayer 1.0rc1-maemo-18.n770
kmplayer 0.7.3-1
 
ichmoimeyo is offline ichmoimeyo
2007-09-17 , 03:35
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Originally Posted by buggsy2 View Post
Still no joy! It lists all the segments, but only pops up a window a few times: Buffering w/o ever playing anything.

mplayer 1.0rc1-maemo-18.n770
kmplayer 0.7.3-1
strange... it works perfectly fine for me after buffering for about 12-15 seconds. I just tried it again.
I have the 'Player' option in kmplayer set to: MPlayer
The only difference is that I have the n800 & thus
'mplayer 1.0rc1-maemo-18.n800' but the same kmplayer 0.7.3-1
 
ichmoimeyo is offline ichmoimeyo
2007-09-17 , 07:42
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Originally Posted by ichmoimeyo View Post
strange... it works perfectly fine for me after buffering for about 12-15 seconds.
Actually I just noticed that sometimes a 'first' buffering window appears that closes nearly immediately. 7-8 seconds later a 'second' buffering window opens that then buffers for the approx. 12-15 seconds mentioned previously.
Thereafter all the other segments buffer normally.
Hope you get it working.
 
bkrownd is offline bkrownd
2007-09-17 , 08:38
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Works for me on n800 too, just as described by ichmoimeyo. Stream stopped after a little while, though. Might have just stopped at the end of the first segment?
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