Playing streaming NPR?

[Michael V. De Palatis]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:19:35PM -0500, mrwolff wrote:
> I was just wondering what people used to play streams such as the 24hour 
> "NPR Program Stream" that's on the frontpage of npr.org?
> 
> I've gotten mplayer to handle it.... barely.... it turns black for at 
> least a couple of minutes before it starts playing and even then it is 
> jittery and choppy.  (It feels like a Windows 3.1 program honestly
> :-/ )

Turns black? Are you talking about a *video* stream or just an audio
one? If a video sream, try also xine-ui. I've always found that xine
as a whole works for me much better than mplayer. Don't really know
why, though.

Mike