Hi kde folks,

I tried to run SHOUTcast stream (http://188.165.225.153:8000) but Amarok told me "amarok requires an additional plugin to decode this file" I chose "Search" and waited forever but nothing changed! I'm still unable to play any kind of streams

Any suggestion?

Screenshot

works for me, gonna asume you're using gstreamer phonon backend and missing a plugin, open your package manager and make sure you have all available gstreamer plugins installed OR try the VLC phonon backend

The phonon-backend-gstreamer is known to have problems with streams, you should use the phonon-backend-vlc instead.

google01103 wrote:works for me, gonna asume you're using gstreamer phonon backend and missing a plugin, open your package manager and make sure you have all available gstreamer plugins installed

I installed all gstreamer plugins but I still get same issue

OR try the VLC phonon backend

After trying VLC backend I didn't get error messages but still not playing the streams!!!!

PS
VLC backend doesn't support the equalizer...that's too bad


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http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/3688/snapshot8e.png
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I forgot to mention that I'm using
Amarok 2.4.3
KDE 4.7.4

I just tried your stream http://188.165.225.153:8000 in the current git-build, with no problems. However, I needed to install "kubuntu-restricted-extras" first in my new 12.04 Kubuntu install. So be sure you have all the necessary codecs installed for gstreamer-backend. As I understand it, the vlc backend needs no extra codecs.

Perhaps you should try updating Amarok to 2.5? We'll be releasing 2.6 soon!

I will notice that it claims to need the type "text/html" which indicates the stream isn't commencing at all - but trying to show a web page. What happens when you visit that URL in a web browser on your system? You might be subject to geographical restrictions.

OH, wait, I missed completely that you were talking about a Shoutcast stream, you need a script for that, else it will not play due to Shoutcast's API conditions. Please have a look here: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/SH ... ent=116823

valoriez wrote:Perhaps you should try updating Amarok to 2.5? We'll be releasing 2.6 soon!

I've already updated Amarok to 2.5 and KDE to 2.8.2... nothing changed!

bcooksley wrote:You might be subject to geographical restrictions.

No this issue happens for all streams, I just put that link as example.

Mamarok wrote:OH, wait, I missed completely that you were talking about a Shoutcast stream, you need a script for that, else it will not play due to Shoutcast's API conditions. Please have a look here: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/SH ... ent=116823

I'm playing the stream and I do not have the Shoutcast script installed

Mamarok wrote:OH, wait, I missed completely that you were talking about a Shoutcast stream, you need a script for that, else it will not play due to Shoutcast's API conditions. Please have a look here: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/SH ... ent=116823

I installed it from beginning it didn't fix the issue

Do you have another player that you can try? sMplayer & VLC both work for me. if they also don't work I would agree with bcooksley that it is a geographical restriction

google01103 wrote:Do you have another player that you can try? sMplayer & VLC both work for me. if they also don't work I would agree with bcooksley that it is a geographical restriction

I tried Streamtuner it's working well

Well, Streamtuner is optimized for Shoutcast, please try another media player, not a a stream browser.