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Absolute Radio over IPv6 Unicast
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The School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton are working with Absolute Radio to make them the first commercial radio station in the UK to be accessible over IPv6. |
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We are currently relaying four of the official Absolute Radio UK feeds available over unicast IPv6:
| MP3 Broadband (128k) | http://virgin.6pack.org/aruk-hi-mp3 | pls |
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| MP3 Modem (32k) | http://virgin.6pack.org/aruk-lo-mp3 | pls |
| Ogg Vorbis Broadband (~160k) | http://virgin.6pack.org/aruk-hi.ogg | pls |
| Ogg Vorbis Modem (~32k) | http://virgin.6pack.org/aruk-lo.ogg | pls |
We are also making the following digital satellite streams available:
| Absolute Radio UK (192k) | http://virgin.6pack.org/dvb/aruk-ar-mp2 | pls |
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| Absolute Classic Rock (128k) | http://virgin.6pack.org/dvb/aruk-cr-mp2 | pls |
| Absolute Xtreme (192k) | http://virgin.6pack.org/dvb/aruk-ax-mp2 | pls |
To listen to Absolute Radio over IPv6, you need an IPv6 enabled audio player. Here is a list of players that are known to work:
- iTunes 6.0.2 (tested on Mac OS X and Windows XP SP2)
- Windows Media Player 10 (tested on Windows XP SP2)
- XMMS 1.2.8 (tested on Linux)
- zinf (tested on Linux)
- mpg123 0.59s (tested on Linux)
- VideoLan Client 0.8.4 (tested on Mac OS X and Windows XP SP2)
For more information about Absolute Radio and what is currently on-air, visit their website at http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/.
Absolute Radio over IPv6 Multicast
The University of Southampton is also making Absolute Radio UK available on IPv4 and IPv6 multicast. Visit http://www.multicast.org.uk/absoluteradio/ for more information.
For further IPv6 information please contact the
PCaN Theme.
Web site hosted on RHEL3 running dual-stack IPv4-IPv6.