[ale] Hardy 8.04 Streaming Radio wont work

[Brian Pitts]

jtholmes wrote:
> I have been trying to get  www.wgst.com Live Listen
> to work for a couple of days now and no success.
> 
> I have tried, vlc, amarok, and Firefox and none of them
> will play the Stream from wgst.
> All other Video/Sound works fine, YouTube you name it.
> 
> vlc says stream not recognized
> amarok says no suitable demux
> firefox  says  'loading'  forever and never starts the sound
> 
> anyone successful using Hardy 8.04 and getting  live stream
> to play from  wgst  or any other  Radio stream
> 
> I have also tried  shoutcast.com  no success there either.

The wgst web-based player doesn't load for me. Do you have a direct url
for the stream?

Shoutcast streams work fine for me. Have you installed the package
ubuntu-restricted-extras?

-Brian