Can I play m3u8 streams using Rhythmbox?

Do you mean m3u, not m3u8. Just to clarify?

What i sthe output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy rhythmbox

Thanks

well, it is m3u8, indeed. I have found some related information at

http://askubuntu.com/questions/11508/how-do-i-play-m3u8-files

but nothing that points me to understand if it is possible to have it working in rhythmbox.

Output of requested commands:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
Linux andrea-desktop 2.6.32-45-generic #103-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 7 22:19:08 UTC 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
rhythmbox:
  Installato: 0.12.8-0ubuntu7
  Candidato: 0.12.8-0ubuntu7
  Tabella versione:
 *** 0.12.8-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.12.8-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

Thank you,
Andrea

BTW, the stream that I can reproduce using vlc, but not with rhythmbox, is

http://radio24-lh.akamaihd.net/i/radio24_1@99307/master.m3u8

Thanks
A.

Just an FYI but Lucid desktop is EOL in April 2013. You may want to upgrade soon rather than wasting time on a near dead release. Once it goes EOL, there will be zero updates and zero support anywhere (including here and in the IRC channel for ubuntu).

http://askubuntu.com/questions/11508/how-do-i-play-m3u8-files