[vox-tech] .asx player for Linux?

William Kendrick vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 11:21:11 -0800


On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:04:36AM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> http://www.csus.edu/npr/.  Unfortunately, while KQED in SF streams their 
> shows in .wav, so it can be played with Real Player, KXJZ streams it in 
> .asx.  In Windows, I can use Windows Media Player to listen to their 
> stream, but I can't use Real in Linux.
> 
> Is there a tool which I can use to listen to .asx files in Linux?  I found 
> mplayer at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/  but I'm not sure if that will 
> be the best tool.

I'm not sure what ASX is compared to ASF, but you might have luck with
XMMS and some plugins. :^/  Check www.xmms.org

Good luck!

-bill!