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How to play stream on www.hit967.com

Asked by Bappyachuthan

Hai,
I am using UBUNTU 9.04 OS. I tried to open a web based radio called Hit 96.7. Pls note the website for the same below. "www.hit967.com/english/pages/listenlive. aspx" When i tried to play the media, there is a message appearing on the top to install required plugins. Accordingly i installed wmpfirefoxplugin.exe by opening the file in WINE. Also mean time it is searching for suitable multimedia plugins MMSH Protocol Source. However,i am reciving a message that the said packages with requested plugins is not found. Pls help me to run this media.

Regards.

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#1

I'm not absolutely sure, but if you View Page Source of that page it gives this link: http://asx.abacast.com/arabian_radio-hitfm-64.asx

If you play that in VLC (Media, Open Network - Paste into box) it identifies it as hit967 64bit.

Alternatively you can play the link in Firefox.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

arochester
Confirm it works using vlc, quick tried from terminal:

vlc http://asx.abacast.com/arabian_radio-hitfm-64.asx is working

How to install vlc and related codecs and other stuffs... here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc

Hth

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Bappyachuthan (bappyachuthan) said : 		#3

Can you explain more about VLC. I don't understand that.
When i clicked on the above mentioned link on your reply its directing to a media player and still asking MMSH protocol source missing.

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Delan Azabani (azabani) said : 		#4

Please try and see if you can get a Flash embedded version on the page rather than a Windows Media version. For example the link may look like this:

Format: Windows Media | Flash

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#5

"Can you explain more about VLC. I don't understand that."

VLC is a media player - perhaps the most flexible.

If you don't have it -
Connect to the Internet
Open a Terminal
Issue the command: sudo apt-get install vlc

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Bappyachuthan (bappyachuthan) said : 		#6

Yeh its working now.

Thanks for the support.