Playing XMRadio Online on Linux using mplayer plug-in

[MikeW]

I am writing this note to document that I was able to listen to XM
Radio Online from my Linux box. The way was not documented so
hopefully I can save at least 1 person a lot of research work.

First you need mplayer, this was hard to get because there are a lot of
bad links out there pointing to www.mplayerhq.hu. At this writing that
is a bad DNS. Use ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/releases to obtain mplayer
and the required codecs.

I used:

MPlayer-1.0pre7.tar.bz2
codecs/essential-20050412.tar.bz2

You should get all the codecs and fonts to be complete, I only needed
XM radio at this time so essential codecs works fine for me.

Make sure and read all the requirements then build the package, my
machine is a 350mz so it took a while, there are lots of warnings but
nothing that has so far effected to operation of the program. Mostly
bad casting technique could be other product headers.

Then you need mplayerplug-in for Mozilla or Firefox. I have not been
able to get this to work on Netscape yet, but since I only run Netscape
to test web page development its not important to me.

Get Mplayerplug-in from mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net. I downloaded
version 3.11 and used YUM to get mozilla-devel and its dependent
packages. Type yum install mozilla-devel.

The mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net has test cases for mplayer and
mplayerplug-in. If you run into problems check out
mplayerplug-in-devel on sourceforge.net and you might meet Kevin he got
me on the right track when I had a problem.

By the way I found out about mplayer from XM Radio but only when I
asked for help, officially they don't support Linux.

If I can I'll help anyone that askes, I'm not a Linux guru but I am a
software guy.