HI, I thought I know my way around livestreams, but after days of fiddling around, I have to ask: how do you play back livestreams? shoutcast respective m3u is playing fine, but RA or WMA gives me headaches...

i found no alternative to the standard n800 Media Player so far, and this app is really mysterious: it does not even show me the URLs of the links which are preconficured (BBC1). I figured out they are pointing to the Real Audio stream: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram

the normal way for livestreams is to popup a new window with the player plugin (WMA or RA), but of course those links do not work as we have no WMA plugin. If you can find the direct link to the stream, it also does not play back.

so how do you link to lwma or ra livestreams, or which app do you use, e.g. for a mms link like this: mms://stream4.orf.at/oe1-wort
or another BBC link, the one to BBC 1EXTRA???

thanks for any input,
karl.

Under the talk section, I found 10 or so that are good, programs I like to listen to . I had to go through 100 or so to find them, most are not compatible with the N800, usually 'cause you have to run an applet or windows media player. Haven't gone through the other catagories yet.
http://streamingradioguide.com/

The few I've found actually had an alternate MP3 link under where the player applet is supposed to be in the web page, or had a link I could manually copy when I clicked on the Help links for the player appler, and like craigy I had to search quite a bit to find those. It's really a crap shoot and you end up hitting an annoying number of "Listen Now" links to find the right ones.

I have been looking for a Galaxy Yorkshire link but haven't found anyway yet. If anyone does find away let me know asap.

thank you all for your experiences, matches my own very closely....
I want to take the discussion from single links (there are thousands, we now that..) to the question which DELIVERY mechanisms the N800 can handle, as I know it there are the followong protocols:
UDP - TCP - HTTP - Mutlicast

and the followong prefixes for those streams:
mms:// - rtsp:// - http://

so the problem are not the audio formats (wma, ra or mp3) but the protocols.
after some testing I am quite sure that ONLY HTTP:// links work on the N800.

As this seems to be more of an application issue than a primary N800 question, does anyone know of an application that can handle mms and/or rtsp????

thanks for any input or corrections,
karl.

Your best bet is to use mplayer since it has support for far more CODECs then nokia's built in player. Unfortunately it's not a simple click and go thing. First you need to find the URL of the stream, then from an xterm window you would type:

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

other then that though it works great for a playing a number of streams in various formats including WMA.

As for finding the URL of streams, I found a great little app from Roku that I use with my soundbridge (but not necessary) that helps identify URL streams.

http://www.rokulabs.com/support_sb_dwnld_radiosnoop.php

How do you get an xterm in nokia n800?

You install xterm like any other program. If you click on Software at the top here, then Fetch the keyword xterm, you should be able to install from there. It's in the System category of programs.

bac522,
I have Mplayer installed, but can not really nake it work properly:
the menu bar shows me "GMPLauncher", there is one line to open a file, but no menu, no tools, empty.
AM I missing something with MPlayer?

No, you need to run the command I listed earlier from an xterm shell window. GMPLauncher is basically just a GUI frontend to mplayer that would show movie files (if you had any) installed on your IT. The GUI frontend isn't meant to access internet streams, which is the reason why you need to run it from a command line if you want to listen to internet streams.