CBC Is Linux Friendly
As I write this, I’m listing to O’Reilly on Advertising on CBC Radio. Not on the radio though, since our only radio is in the kitchen, but online. CBC has had their radio content available live online for many years now, but things have dramatically improved since they first went online. If you go to their listen page you’ll see that they have localized streams. That means that I get the Calgary content (especially important for the morning and drive home shows) and also means that I’m not competing with the entire country for the limited audio streams. The audio feeds used to use streaming RealAudio but in August 2004 CBC moved to Windows Media for their streams.
The best part about CBC live streams, and a sign that Linux is becoming more mainstream, is that on their listen page, CBC notes that their streams are compatible with Unix, and that they tested them on Gentoo Linux 1.5.1 and FreeBSD 5.x. They further note that mplayer and xine work fine with the stream. As if I didn’t love the CBC enough already; now I have another reason.
Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:48 Posted in General
