Hitchhiker's Guide to Openbsd

help/gebruiksvoorwaarden/stream_11.m3U
$ cat stream_11.m3U
http://mp3.streampower.be/radio1-mid.mp3
http://mp3.streampower.be/radio1-low.mp3
http://mp3.streampower.be/radio1-high.mp3
It looks like I can even choose between low, medium and high quality streams. Other websites 
may contain some JavaScript code to generate the URL. In that case, the best tip is: dig up the 
HTML source and scripts it refers to. There is a good chance you can reconstruct the URL from 
it. 
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To play streams, your best bet is probably 
x11/mplayer
, which is available through packages 
and ports. It supports most of the streaming protocols and formats, and has been reported to work 
on amd64, i386, powerpc and sparc64 platforms. But there are alternatives: ogg123 from 
audio/
vorbis-tools
(for Ogg Vorbis streams), 
audio/mpg123
and 
audio/mpg321
(for MP3 
streams), XMMS in 
audio/xmms
and the Videolan Client in 
x11/vlc
. Continuing the 
example: 
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html (23 of 25)9/4/2011 10:02:21 AM

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13 - Multimedia
$ mplayer http://mp3.streampower.be/radio1-mid.mp3
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Optionally, you may want to make it a little easier by including an alias in your 
.profile
: 
alias radio1='mplayer http://mp3.streampower.be/radio1-
mid.mp3'
Windows Media (ASF) streams will often work, though they may contain data in formats supported only 
through the 
graphics/win32-codecs
port, which runs on i386 only ('pkg_info win32-codecs' will 
tell you which codecs). Some Real Audio streams can be made to work on i386 using mplayer in 
conjunction with the 
graphics/win32-codecs
and 
emulators/fedora/base
 ports (see 
this 
thread
on the ports mailing list).