[MPlayer-users] can anyone play this with mplayer ?

[Jonathan Rogers]

Samuel TRUONG wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> * Redhat71 <email at redhat71.3322.org> [2003/04/28]:
> % mms://wm9v2.bur.synccast.com/billboard/player.wsx
> %
> % i used to play some radio and video started with mms:// , but not this one
> 
> I'm using MPlayer 0.90rc5-2.95.4. Here's my output:
> 
>   >Connecting to server wm9v2.bur.synccast.com[216.206.178.197]:80 ...
>   >Server return 500:Internal Server Error
>   >Failed to parse header
>   >Resolving wm9v2.bur.synccast.com ...
>   >Connecting to server wm9v2.bur.synccast.com[216.206.178.197]:1755 ...
>   >connected
>   >unknown object
>   >file object, packet length = 2261 (2261)
>   >unknown object
>   >unknown object
>   >unknown object
>   >stream object, stream id: 2
>   >unknown object
>   >data object
>   >
>   >alert! eof
>   >mmst packet_length = 2261
>   >Cache size set to 64 KBytes
>   >Connected to server: wm9v2.bur.synccast.com
>   >Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
> 
> The code-500 "Internal Server Error" makes me think the stream
> is busted, and the problem isn't necessarily mplayer.  Did you
> successfully play this with any other media players?

I get very similar output, and MPlayer hangs trying to fill the cache, 
using all free CPU cycles split between user and system time. To me, 
this suggests that something is polling input continuously, without any 
delay. Using all free CPU time, at least, is an MPlayer bug.

Jonathan Rogers