is anyone using the gnome media player

[Maurice McCarthy]

Hi Burt

VLC was originated by French students in Paris and the name of its
home page www.videolan.org strongly suggests to me that it should
facilitate the recording of streams. So I looked it up ... I can only
suggest browsing
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo

VLC is supposed to have podcast support also. Again I have never used
this feature so I cannot help I'm afraid.

Good Luck
Maurice



On 27/08/2010, Burt Henry <burt1iband at gmail.com> wrote:
> thank you for the info/I installed the "easy installcodecs" script
> included with
> Vinous...I am so looking for other solutions for .pdf reading to avoid
> the bloated Adobe option, but may break-down and use this if the
> conversion program does not deal with multi-column formats and such...
> sudo apt-get install geditpdf
> This is cmd line only, but I am going to try and install a way to click
> on a context menu option to convert in the nautilus file manager.
> Also accessibility is supposed to be close to resolved in the .pdf
> viewer included in Vinux/ think Ubuntu as well.
> I have been using the gnome player since last night, and although it
> does crash under some conditions, I find it the best interface of the
> Linux GUI players I've tried...did you say you used VLC?
> Does this let you record streaming audio?
> I got an ap called streamtuner that defaults to use audacious player,
> but I think may work with other media players, and can rip from streams.)
> How podcast retrieving software, any suggestions?
> Thanks.
> On 08/27/2010 01:30 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote:
>> Burt
>>
>> It has just occurred to me that you may have to do
>>
>> $ sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras
>>
>> to get the codecs to play a DVD with VLC. It also includes things like
>> the installer for the acrobat reader, flash and several codecs. The
>> reason this is not installed by default is legal. The codec converters
>> are illegal in some countries so it is up to the individual to make
>> sure that the package is ok for them. Acroread can be used as a
>> work-around to get a narration from an open office text document.
>>
>> There is no text to speech in Open Office yet so you export the file
>> to pdf and use the acrobat narration.
>>
>> Alternatively
>>
>> $ sudo aptitude install libdvdcss2
>>
>> will play many DVDs.
>>
>> Best Wishes
>> Maurice
>>
>>
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