I just copied and pasted the URL into my VLC-GTK (in the Streams tab), and it plays fine for me .. Well, the audio playlist GUI pops up with no entries in it (not ideal!) but I can listen to the radio station fine...OscarTalks wrote:Hello Sc0ttman,
The idea of a GTK GUI for VLC is a good one, so thanks for developing it.
I have tried it a few times including the latest version, but I find that I can not launch streams by entering a playlist metafile such as a .pls in the URL field.
It works with the Qt GUI and even from CLI eg for WABC in New York using vlc_nogui-1.1.5 in Racy:-
Not sure if I should be inputting the URL in a different way or if something can be done in your VLC-GTK to make it work by just entering the URL and clicking the button in the normal way.Code: Select all
cvlc http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/WABCAMAAC.pls
Maybe the problem is with incompatible settings set by VLC-GTK, that cause problems with vlc itself... Try enabling the 'debugger' (in the Advanced tab), then launch the station as normal - you'll get a popup window of the VLC command to be used - just copy & paste the vlc command into a terminal and gradually reduce the options until it works, or until you are left with only `cvlc "URL"` ... This might help you find the problem - if it is indeed related to options being set by VLC-GTK.
Hope that helps.