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Subject: Re: ChessFM and Linux

Author: Andy McFarland

Date: 19:13:37 02/13/05

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On February 13, 2005 at 12:36:25, Pallav Nawani wrote:

>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 ?

Contact me with alternatives for Chess.FM zek@chessclub.com

Andy (Zek on ICC)



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