On Sunday 03 October 2010 19:10:13 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 03 October 2010 17:29:45 Dale wrote: > >> Mick wrote: > >>> On Sunday 03 October 2010 15:41:43 Vincent-Xavier JUMEL wrote: > >>>> Le 03 octobre à 14:05 Mick a écrit > >>>> > >>>>> It doesn't show up in the menu anymore. The previous version was > >>>>> working fine. Am I missing some crafty USE flag? > >>>> > >>>> If you're using vlc 1.1.0 or above, you should have read > >>>> http://www.videolan.org/press/2010-1.html which informs about the > >>>> situation and why the VLC team had had to removed it. > >>> > >>> Thanks, I can see why now. The page mentions icecast as an alternative > >>> and the fact that this is available as an Addon for vlc, but can't find > >>> anywhere how to add it on ... > >> > >> I know nothing about vlc or icecast but I did google and find this. > >> > >> http://en.flossmanuals.net/VLC/StreamingIcecast > >> > >> It may help, it may not. Let's hope. ;-) > > > > Thanks Dale, very kind of you to look into this for me. I actually want > > to stream from (listen to internet radio), not stream to a server. > > > > Previous versions of vlc had a Service Discovery option which would tune > > in to shoutcast/icecast servers to list and listen to their streams. > > This has now been removed. A really good feature was that you could > > search for music of your liking by genre and different servers would > > show up to allow you to connect and listen. > > While diggin, I saw a list of servers and I think they were by genre. > Just go to google and type in icecast server and see what pops up. > Also, watch what google suggests as you type to. It may show a option > we aren't thinking about. May be just what you need. Yes, google shows and plays shoutcast/icecast music via the browser. It is just that I used to do that directly from within vlc. But now both vlc and amarok dropped it due to AOL. :-( -- Regards, Mick