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

[Jesse F. Hughes]

"tony" <tony at tntpro.com> writes:

> The stream does work in windows media player... perhaps there is
> some way to select stream 2 or something along those lines?

I tried calling mplayer on
<URL:mms://stream.dispatchbroadcast.com/Pens/Pens021102.wma>.  The
results were similar, appended below.

Thanks for confirming that it works in Windows media player.  I wasn't
altogether sure, and I don't have the means to check.

jesse at phiwumbda:~$ mplayer mms://stream.dispatchbroadcast.com/Pens/Pens021102.wma
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 /home/jesse/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/jesse/.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: /home/jesse/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startupscripts.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/jesse/.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 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 40 KBytes
Connected to server: stream.dispatchbroadcast.com
Cache fill:  5.31% (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

 
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mplayer-users-admin at mplayerhq.hu
> [mailto:mplayer-users-admin at mplayerhq.hu]On Behalf Of Jesse F. Hughes
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 4:24 PM
> To: mplayer user list
> Subject: [MPlayer-users] Windows Streaming Media ain't streaming.
>
>
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 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

-- 
Jesse Hughes
"Surround sound is going to be increasingly important in future
offices."
  -- Microsoft marketing manager displays his keen insight