listen to stream with xmms or mplayer

[littleguru]

Sorry
but when I add this link to xmms playlist URL . nothing shows up in play 
list .
even it doesn't show other files, sorry , it seems xmms can not play any 
thing at all .
I have removed the xmms and want to install newer one but in xmms site 
it says that i need
one of the followings :

    * ALSA output: ALSA 0.9.0 <http://www.alsa-project.org/> or better.
    * Esound output: esound 0.2.8
      <ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/esound/0.2/> or better.
    * Mikmod input: libmikmod 3.1.10
      <http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/sound/libs/libmikmod-3.1.10.tar.gz>

    * Ogg Vorbis input: libvorbis <http://www.vorbis.com/download_unix.psp>
    * OpenGL Visual plugin: Mesa 3.0 <http://www.mesa3d.org> or better.


    what are they ? and is it necesary to have xmms with another
    software to works ? what about mplayer or real player ? can they
    play streams ?


thanks
netmask wrote:

>> this is a month I want to listen to following site , but I can't :
>> http://salsastream.com/
>> the stream is pls type and mozila try to open audio/x-scpls helper 
>> and it can't.
>> http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialMozillaConfiguration.html#PLUGINS 
>>
>> any thing I missed , I have xmms and mplayer and both working fine .
>
>
> Go into XMMS, click on +URL (bottom left)
>
> and put in the following address:
>
> http://205.188.234.65:8026
>
> Then click on it in your play list.. does it work? That's all the PLS 
> file is.. is a pointer to that server..
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