Sheffield Indymedia Radio On Air (Webcast too)
Bill | 15.07.2003 09:18 | Evian G8 | Culture | Indymedia | Technology | Sheffield
The Sheffield Indymedia radio show broadcasted from 7pm until 8pm UTC+1 starting on Tuesday 8th July on Sheffield Live! 106.FM and continued every Tuesday until 29th July when there was a two hour special.
The broadcasts were also streamed on the Internet from the SheffieldLive! website -
http://www.sheffieldlive.org/
To listen to the shows, click on the following links (you must have RealPlayer installed which can be downloaded for free from here -
http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html
MP3:-
http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk1.mp3
http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk2.mp3
http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk3.mp3
http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk4.mp3
RealMedia:-
http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk1.rm
http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk2.rm
http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk3.rm
http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk4.rm
The first week's show can be heard here as a series of smaller MP3 files (11 in all):
http://radio.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=784&group=webcast
Included on the second week's program were:
Deacon Dave ( http://www.colehse.demon.co.uk/DeaconDave.htm) talking live about his experience in Bagdhad during the height of the war.
A Noam Chomsky recording about weapons of mass destruction.
An interview with activists at the recent Evian protests.
Poetry from The Buddhist Punk
An interview with Manu Chao originally broadcast on Radio Earth Summit: "Manu Chao, a musician and superstar in
many parts of the world, is also an anti-globalisation hero. He travels the world with his band, Radio Bemba Sound System, meeting
with resistance movements."
Direct action in Cheshire - why activists targetted construction company Amec the previous week.
and much more...
The broadcasts were also streamed on the Internet from the SheffieldLive! website -
http://www.sheffieldlive.org/ To listen to the shows, click on the following links (you must have RealPlayer installed which can be downloaded for free from here -
http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html MP3:-
http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk1.mp3 http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk2.mp3 http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk3.mp3 http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk4.mp3 RealMedia:-
http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk1.rm http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk2.rm http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk3.rm http://media1.commedia.org.uk:8080/ramgen/indymedia/indymedia_wk4.rm The first week's show can be heard here as a series of smaller MP3 files (11 in all):
http://radio.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=784&group=webcast Included on the second week's program were:
Deacon Dave (
http://www.colehse.demon.co.uk/DeaconDave.htm) talking live about his experience in Bagdhad during the height of the war. A Noam Chomsky recording about weapons of mass destruction.
An interview with activists at the recent Evian protests.
Poetry from The Buddhist Punk
An interview with Manu Chao originally broadcast on Radio Earth Summit: "Manu Chao, a musician and superstar in
many parts of the world, is also an anti-globalisation hero. He travels the world with his band, Radio Bemba Sound System, meeting
with resistance movements."
Direct action in Cheshire - why activists targetted construction company Amec the previous week.
and much more...
Bill
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had a problem listening to it on the webradio
15.07.2003 18:34
I can't find out the proper URL, and I can't access the Chat-room, and there is no alternative given.
It doesn't work with Opera, or Kopnqueror, and in Mozilla it cuts me off all the time- has anybody else the same experience?
ab
Problems with the webcast
16.07.2003 11:02
> I can't find out the proper URL, and I can't access the Chat-room, and there is no
> alternative given.
> It doesn't work with Opera, or Kopnqueror, and in Mozilla it cuts me off all the time- has > anybody else the same experience?
Thanks for the feedback, ab.
I deal with some aspects of the tech side of the webcast.
Our ISP has reported to us today that we are getting errors on the line. We will try power-cycling our network devices to see if that clears the problem or else call in some technicians. Hopefully that will sort it for next week.
You can't find the proper URL of the webcast? That's because some high-tech SMIL coding has been used, I believe. Try the following:
audio - rtsp://media1.commedia.org.uk:7554/encoder/sheff_audio.rm
video - rtsp://media1.commedia.org.uk:7554/encoder/sheff_video.rm
Despite its proprietary nature, the RealMedia platform has been used as it offers excellent quality:compression ratios and has good cross-platform support.
I think that you did manage to access the chat room as we had a good natter eventually. It should work on all machines as it loads a Java applet - however, I didn't manage to get chat working under Mozilla. It does however work under IRC so you can enter these details into your favourite IRC client:
channel: #SheffieldLive
servername: irc.oftc.net
port: 6667
Agreed, the site has not been designed with cross-platform accessibility foremost in mind but I believe that they're trying to work on that - they used to have a text only site...
Anyway, thanks very much for your feedback. I'm glad that you liked the show. Hope to catch up with you next week.
Bill
Bill