Mplayer and BBC

Published: Wednesday, Dec 26, 2007 Last modified: Saturday, Mar 23, 2024

Howto listen to the Radio. Install mplayer:

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable main

deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable main

I have a simple alias to listen to Radio2 in Debian:

alias radio2='mplayer "rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio2/live/r2_dsat_g2.ra?BBC-UID=9427ad23ac8f6e909061ec7641002c1c5e71eb5fb010a166c395c50c48b52efa&SSO2-UID="'

Actually you can just write plain old shell instead of alias you know:

radio1() {

mplayer "mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio1/radio1_nb_e1s1?BBC-UID=f4279e47c9a971baebd3dfea9040fba93d3d46eb50d03184e4ef3a0f75413cbc_n&SSO2-UID="

}