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Subject: Re: ChessFM and Linux

Author: Pallav Nawani

Date: 09:36:25 02/13/05

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On February 13, 2005 at 09:53:58, Frank Phillips wrote:

>On February 13, 2005 at 08:53:00, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>On February 13, 2005 at 08:31:17, Frank Phillips wrote:
>>
>>>I would be grateful if someone would tell me how to listen to chessfm (MS WMP
>>>9?) .asx files in Linux.
>>>
>>>mplayer used to work to but not anymore.
>>>
>>>(I have suse 9.2, M10.1, M10.1_x86_64 and Mepis intalled).
>>>
>>>Frank
>>
>>I have always used XMMS to listen to Chess.fm feeds in Linux. I just open a
>>"location" type in the url, and away it goes.
>>
>>Peter
>
>Thanks.  Installed xmms, but getting errors (GLIB, gutils).  Will try to sort it
> out some other tims.
>
>Wish ICC would use a more open standard.  No idea why they do not use ogg or
>something else .... unless ICC have have taken the MS shilling ;-)
>
>
>Frank

Its possible they may not even know that a better alternative exists. Why not
discuss it with them ?



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