September 18th, 2008 by Stargazer
Living without aRtsd isn’t bad at all
aRts is the old KDE Sound daemon which appeared around Version 2.0 of the KDE. Its purpose was mixing multiple music channels in real time – in other words playing a beep sound while playing music and so on as the common soundcard wasn’t able to do this. Later on hardware and drivers moved on and the main developer retired from the project. In other words, the project went pretty dead and is depreciated by now.
Tags: gentoo, linux, multimedia
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mplayer and internet radio streams
March 7th, 2008 by Stargazer
mplayer is one of the media players, you can use for everything on linux. There are nearly no formats you cannot decode.
Regarding internet radio, I like this player as it works without bells and whilstles straight from the console. For tuning in a stream, you could use the following comand:
mplayer -cache 1024 http://sc-rly.181.fm:80/stream/1075
If you try this example – be warned: this is a country music stream, I really like.
Tags: linux, multimedia, radio
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