[MPlayer-users] Windows Streaming Media ain't streaming.

[Jesse F. Hughes]

Hey ho.

I'm completely new to mplayer.  I downloaded it so that I might listen
to a Pens hockey game from overseas (why won't the NHL use
RealPlayer?).  However, so far, no luck.

I have the win32 codecs installed, but when I try to listen to a game,
I hear the little blurb announcing who's streaming the media, and then
nothing.  Below is the output from mplayer.

I'm sitting behind a firewall, but I don't think that's the problem.
I don't see any dropped packets in my logs, but perhaps they're being
dropped without logging.  In any case, I tried opening up ports 1755
and 80, just in case, but there was no change.

I was able to listen to www.vcyamerica.org.  They're also serving a
.asx file, but they had a snippet explaining how Linux users can
listen, which I spotted via Google.  Sadly, they are a purely
Christian radio station, which is somehow not the substitute for Ice
Hockey.

I thought I'd try my luck in the home of evil streaming media, MSNBC,
but everything there is done via javascript and so I can't find the
URL to put on the command line for mplayer.  Agh.

Anyway, any help would be appreciated.  Please let me know what
details I have omitted.  As I said, I'm new to this program.

root at phiwumbda:/usr/src/MPlayer-0.90pre9# mplayer http://streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com/Pensgame021102.asx
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90pre9-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel Celeron A Mendocino/Pentium II Dixon (Family: 6, Stepping: 5)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX

Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 110 video codecs
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz)
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing http://streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com/Pensgame021102.asx
Resolving streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com ...
Connecting to server streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com[198.242.35.42]:80 ...
Resolving streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com ...
Connecting to server streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com[198.242.35.42]:80 ...
Connected to server: streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com


Playing mms://stream.dispatchbroadcast.com/RSN/Stinger2.wma
Resolving stream.dispatchbroadcast.com ...
Connecting to server stream.dispatchbroadcast.com[199.218.4.66]:80 ...
Stream bitrate properties object
Max bandwidth set to 0
Resolving stream.dispatchbroadcast.com ...
Connecting to server stream.dispatchbroadcast.com[199.218.4.66]:80 ...
Cache size set to 35 KBytes
Connected to server: stream.dispatchbroadcast.com
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    Detected ASF file format!
============ ASF Stream group == START ===
 object size = 32
 stream count=[0x1][1]
   stream id=[0x1][1]
   max bitrate=[0x575c][22364]
============ ASF Stream group == END ===
Clip info:
 name: Radio Sound Network
 author: Streaming Provided By:
 copyright:
 comments:
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [acm] Win32/ACM decoders
Loading codec DLL: 'divxa32.acm'
Loaded DLL driver divxa32.acm
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 2751->88200 (22.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [divx] afm:acm (DivX audio (WMA))
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 22050Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
Building audio filter chain for 22050Hz/2ch/16bit -> 22050Hz/2ch/16bit...
Video: no video!!!
Start playing...
A:   4.1 40.5% 0%
Total Unfree 4096 bytes cnt 1 [(nil),0]

Playing mms://stream.dispatchbroadcast.com/Pens/Pens021102.wma
Resolving stream.dispatchbroadcast.com ...
Connecting to server stream.dispatchbroadcast.com[199.218.4.66]:80 ...
Stream bitrate properties object
Max bandwidth set to 0
Resolving stream.dispatchbroadcast.com ...
Connecting to server stream.dispatchbroadcast.com[199.218.4.66]:80 ...
Cache size set to 35 KBytes
Connected to server: stream.dispatchbroadcast.com
Cache fill:  6.24% (2174 bytes)    Detected ASF file format!
============ ASF Stream group == START ===
 object size = 32
 stream count=[0x1][1]
   stream id=[0x1][1]
   max bitrate=[0x5724][22308]
============ ASF Stream group == END ===
ASF: No Audio stream found...  ->  no sound
No stream found


Exiting... (End of file)

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