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Meskarune

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From: Helsinki, Finland

Registered: 2009-03-21

Posts: 361

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Free Speech TV

Is there a linux desktop client I can use to watch Free Speech TV, Democracy Now, and other live video streams?

http://www.freespeech.org/
http://www.democracynow.org/

I don't want to be downloading files onto my computer, I just want to watch their live streams, maybe on vlc or an actual client made for that purpose. Democracy now has a real player stream... but I don't know what program would be the best for that. I'd prefer free speech TV anyways since they have more programing. I found democracy now's audio stream : http://www.archive.org/download/dn2010- … 10_vbr.m3u which I listen to sonata, but I can't find a live video stream that vlc could use, etc

what internet video streams do you guys watch?

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thestinger

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 478

Re: Free Speech TV

There are some browser plugin packages that let you stream the videos in the browser:

gecko-mediaplayer (uses mplayer)
vlc-plugin (vlc of course )
totem-plugin (totem)

I tried the democracynow stream, and gecko-mediaplayer works perfectly.

mplayer can play the video stream directly without a browser (vlc probably can too). You have to get the actual stream URL though. The easiest way is just to go to the http link with gecko-mediaplayer installed and right click --> copy location, which gets you "rtsp://rxn-rbn-sea01.rbn.com/farm/*/demnow/demnow/demand/2010/dec/video/dnB20101210a.rm"

then you can do:

mplayer "rtsp://rxn-rbn-sea01.rbn.com/farm/*/demnow/demnow/demand/2010/dec/video/dnB20101210a.rm"

Last edited by thestinger (2010-12-12 21:04:00)