internet tv and radio

Wiles · #1 14th April 2007, 01:20 AM

other than the democracy player, are there any good choices for internet tv? how about live stream tv station? Democracy player downloads the "new" media to the computer and plays back at a later time, kind of a drag since you must wait for the computer to download the entire show first... defeating the purpose of watching tv on a computer. I mean, with tv, you can change the channel and see a few mins of stuff and if you like, decide to change again, or if there's some important news stuff it would be nice to watch it in real time.

also, which internet radio stations work with rythmbox? I'm mainly interested in listening to news, so I hope someone can post a few good national and international news stations.

#2 14th April 2007, 01:25 AM

For your second request you could install Streamtuner.

Edit: Forget it. The Fedora RPM is still hardcoded to use Audacious as its player and installs it as a dependency. I only need one player and that's Rhythmbox!

Wayne

Seve · #3 14th April 2007, 01:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rondonjin

For your second request you could install Streamtuner.

Edit: Forget it. The Fedora RPM is still hardcoded to use Audacious as its player and installs it as a dependency. I only need one player and that's Rhythmbox!

Wayne

Hello Wayne:

Yes, it will install bmp / audacious, however, you can change the preferences in Streamtuner to use any player that you like.

Personally, I use vlc

Seve

#4 14th April 2007, 02:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seve

Hello Wayne:

Yes, it will install bmp / audacious, however, you can change the preferences in Streamtuner to use any player that you like.

Personally, I use vlc

Seve

So, can I remove Audacious with the 'rpm -e --nodeps' option? I hate having superfluous crud installed on my machine, hence my removal of the GNU Java recently. Wish I could remove SELinux too!

Wayne

Seve · #5 14th April 2007, 02:26 AM

Hello Wayne:
I will give it a whirl and let you know if it works.

Seve

Seve · #6 14th April 2007, 02:51 AM

Hello Wayne:
All appears to work [Streamtuner et al] after using the
rpm -e --nodeps audacious

PHP Code:


			
# rpm -e --nodeps audacious

# rpm -aq | grep audacious

audacious-plugins-1.2.5-2.fc6

audacious-libs-1.2.2-2.fc6

# rpm - aq | grep streamtuner

streamtuner-0.99.99-14.fc6.1

Seve

#7 14th April 2007, 02:58 AM

Thanks Seve, I'll give it a go after breakfast

Wayne

Trek1701 · #8 14th April 2007, 03:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wiles

other than the democracy player, are there any good choices for internet tv? how about live stream tv station? Democracy player downloads the "new" media to the computer and plays back at a later time, kind of a drag since you must wait for the computer to download the entire show first... defeating the purpose of watching tv on a computer. I mean, with tv, you can change the channel and see a few mins of stuff and if you like, decide to change again, or if there's some important news stuff it would be nice to watch it in real time.

also, which internet radio stations work with rythmbox? I'm mainly interested in listening to news, so I hope someone can post a few good national and international news stations.

About the radio, I use this one:

http://www.di.fm/

#9 28th April 2007, 06:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rondonjin

Thanks Seve, I'll give it a go after breakfast

Wayne

Wow! I've finally gotten round to doing this, except I did it my way... <cue Elvis>

If you yum install Streamtuner it downloads a bunch of dependencies, including Audacious Music Player for a total of seven packages. Non of the dependencies except one are really needed by Streamtuner, they are mostly for Audacious! So what I did was first download the streamtuner RPM from Extras, then:

yum install taglib

Followed by:

rpm -ivh --nodeps streamtuner-0.99.99-14.fc6.1.i386.rpm

So, in the end I really only needed 2 out of 7 the packages!

Wayne

iamroot · #10 2nd May 2007, 05:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rondonjin

Wow! I've finally gotten round to doing this, except I did it my way... <cue Elvis>

If you yum install Streamtuner it downloads a bunch of dependencies, including Audacious Music Player for a total of seven packages. Non of the dependencies except one are really needed by Streamtuner, they are mostly for Audacious! So what I did was first download the streamtuner RPM from Extras, then:

yum install taglib

Followed by:

rpm -ivh --nodeps streamtuner-0.99.99-14.fc6.1.i386.rpm

So, in the end I really only needed 2 out of 7 the packages!

Wayne

Hi. I know this is kinda irrelevant but could you tell me where to get the theme you're using? It's nice.

#11 2nd May 2007, 05:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iamroot

Hi. I know this is kinda irrelevant but could you tell me where to get the theme you're using? It's nice.

The GTK2 theme engine is Murrine but the actual theme is Murrine-Elegant but I've slightly customised the colours. The Metacity theme is from the T-ish family.

Wayne