Streaming in mpg123

[locazor]

Can someone explain to me how I can listen to the stream at http://media.hiof.no/streams/m3u/nrk-mpetre-128.m3u in mpg123? I can't make it work.

[yowwww]

select open with /usr/bin/xmms (xmms should be there)

if you are using red hat 8 or higher you need to the mpg123 codec to listen to mp3's - go to the xmms website to get it.

[locazor]

I should have mentioned that I am trying to use it in console only. I don't have the possibility to run X because it is a relatively old machine. Therefore, no XMMS

You do not know how to use mpg123 to play the stream?

[Dolda2000]

mpg123 can't "play" m3u files. Download the m3u file and make mpg123 play from the actual URL in there instead. Note that if this is mpg321 and not truly mpg123, it can't play directly over HTTP, so you'll have to use wget and pipe it into mpg123, somewhat like this:

wget -O - `wget -O - http://media.hiof.no/streams/m3u/nrk-mpetre-128.m3u` | mpg123 -

(When you have mpg321, mpg123 is a symlink pointing to mpg321)
For better performance, you might have to pipe it through "buffer" as well. If you don't have buffer, search rpmfind.net for it.

[l_Kriss]

or you can use mplayer, like "mplayer url"

[locazor]

mpg123 can't "play" m3u files. Download the m3u file and make mpg123 play from the actual URL in there instead. Note that if this is mpg321 and not truly mpg123, it can't play directly over HTTP, so you'll have to use wget and pipe it into mpg123, somewhat like this:

wget -O - `wget -O - http://media.hiof.no/streams/m3u/nrk-mpetre-128.m3u` | mpg123 -

(When you have mpg321, mpg123 is a symlink pointing to mpg321)
For better performance, you might have to pipe it through "buffer" as well. If you don't have buffer, search rpmfind.net for it.

thanks! This worked perfectly.