"Liberated" Adobe Flash channels
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Free alternatives to Adobe Flash provide a way to view video and audio, but they still require proprietary JavaScript and they use more resources than viewing the stream in a media player such as MPlayer. I thought it would be a good idea to "liberate" (live) Flash media streams that can be accessed using Gnash or Lightspark but can work without them if a direct link is provided. Finding the direct link can be done using Wireshark.
Anyway, here is such an example:
San Francisco Bay Area's own KDFC, classical radio:
Link that can be viewed using Gnash:
http://www.kdfc.com/
http://www.kdfc.com/pages/15744854.php
Direct link to the live AAC audio that can be viewed using Mplayer (and downloaded using wget - to stop recording use control key + C):
http://9523.live.streamtheworld.com/KDFCFMAAC
Feel free to post any other links you find that work with Gnash or Lightspark (even if you cannot find the direct video or audio link).
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Note that there exists an online database of links that work with VLC and MPlayer here:
http://database.freetuxtv.net/
(The free software player FreetuxTV can play these live streams.)
The KDFC channel is now available there.
That is great. ;) For European radio stations I would suggest: http://www.listenlive.eu/
all these can be configured with "radiotray" package from the repository. I find it very useful because there is the category for classical music, and Bratislava, Helsinki and Prague classical radios use .ogg streaming.
I would like to see more radio streams support Opus for its quality and open nature. Absolute Radio has Opus streams which sounds better than Ogg Vorbis: http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/listen/labs.html#opus
Trisquel 6.0 users can nab the latest VLC and the libopus codec from https://launchpad.net/~n-muench/+archive/vlc2