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Re: SeaMonkey viable for occasional podcast reception?

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On 24/01/2026 12:20, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Occasionally I hear of a possibly interesting podcast.
> I find smartphones effectively unusable due to screen size and missing
> keyboard.
> 
> Is there a viable way to access an occasional podcast on a Debian system
> with SeaMonkey?

I suppose that the podcasts of interest aren't directly playable in SM,
by just clicking on the podcast link. Maybe the site has its own
obfuscating player, so that no direct media link is available, or SM
can't run the site JS to play the podcast, or perhaps you hit the SM
Linux 32-bit issue where the sound doesn't work (quite significant for
audio podcasts).

In that case you can install from the Debian repos mpv, if not already
installed, and yt-dlp. mpv will play a wide range of media files. If it
can't identify a playable stream at the podcast link, it will try to use
yt-dlp to extract a playable link; the latter has a range of generic
extraction tactics as well as an extensive library of extraction tactics
for specific sites.

For more specific advice, you'd have to tell us which podcast URLs
you've found and how playing fails.

hth
/df

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