[MPlayer-users] BBC realvideo not playing

Raphael Clifford raphael at clifford.net
Sat Aug 2 14:02:12 CEST 2003 

Can anyone play

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/39345000/rm/_39345519_justice_marshall30_7_vi.ram

When I wget it I get a file with the following contents.

 cat _39345519_justice_marshall30_7_vi.ram
pnm://rm.bbc.net.uk/news/media/video/39345000/rm/_39345519_justice_marshall30_7_vi.rm?title="Newsnight's 
Peter Marshall"&author="http://news.bbc.co.uk/"&copyright="(C) British 
Broadcasting Corporation"

I tried playing 
pnm://rm.bbc.net.uk/news/media/video/39345000/rm/_39345519_justice_marshall30_7_vi.rm

however I get the following (with -v)

MPlayer dev-CVS-030730-10:51-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Celeron Covington/Pentium II Deschutes,Tonga/Pentium II Xeon 
(Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or 
directory
Reading config file /home/clifford/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/clifford/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open 
'/home/clifford/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or dire
ctory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open 
'/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or direct
ory
Using built-in default codecs.conf
CommandLine: '-v' 
'pnm://rm.bbc.net.uk/news/media/video/39345000/rm/_39345519_justice_marshall30_7_vi.rm' 
'2'
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/clifford/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
font: can't open file: /home/clifford/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
init_freetype
Using MMX Optimized OnScreenDisplay
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 
startup scripts.
Using usleep() timing
get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/clifford/.mplayer/input.conf'
Can't open input config file /home/clifford/.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
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Permission denied
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
get_path('_39345519_justice_marshall30_7_vi.rm.conf') -> 
'/home/clifford/.mplayer/_39345519_justice_marshall30_7_vi
.rm.conf'

Playing 
pnm://rm.bbc.net.uk/news/media/video/39345000/rm/_39345519_justice_marshall30_7_vi.rm
Failed to create AF_INET6 socket:
Resolving rm.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server rm.bbc.net.uk[212.58.224.62]:7070 ...
PNM:// fd=5
Cache size set to 64 KBytes
Connected to server: rm.bbc.net.uk
CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0  pre:0  eof:0 
^MCache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    ^MCache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    
^MCache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    ^MCache fill:
 12.50% (8192 bytes)    ^MCache fill: 12.50% (8192 bytes)    ^MCache 
fill: 12.50% (8192 bytes)    Checking for REAL
REAL file format detected.
real: File version: 0
Chunk: PROP (504f5250) (size: 0x32, offset: 0x12)
First index chunk offset: 0x0
First data chunk offset: 0x3c1
Flags (2): [perfect play (more buffers)]
Chunk: CONT (544e4f43) (size: 0x12, offset: 0x44)
Chunk: MDPR (5250444d) (size: 0x97, offset: 0x56)
Found new stream (id: 0)
skip_str: 12 bytes skipped
skip_str: 20 bytes skipped
==> Found audio stream: 0
Found audio stream!
version: 4
frame_size: 304
sub_packet_size: 0
samplerate: 8000, channels: 1
skip_str: 4 bytes skipped
read_str: 4 bytes read
======= WAVE Format =======
Format Tag: 26995 (0x6973)
Channels: 1
Samplerate: 8000
avg byte/sec: 8500
Block align: 304
bits/sample: 16
cbSize: 10
Unknown extra header dump: [0] [0] [6] [0] [1] [0] [30] [1] [0] [0]
===========================
### skipping 0 bytes of codec info
Chunk: MDPR (5250444d) (size: 0x72, offset: 0xed)
Found new stream (id: 1)
skip_str: 12 bytes skipped
skip_str: 20 bytes skipped
==> Found video stream: 1
video fourcc: RV20 (30325652)
H.263 ID: 20201002
unknown id: 20201002
### skipping 0 bytes of codec info
Chunk: MDPR (5250444d) (size: 0x256, offset: 0x15f)
Found new stream (id: 2)
Not audio/video stream or unsupported!
skip_str: 0 bytes skipped
skip_str: 16 bytes skipped
### skipping 4 bytes of codec info
Packets in file: 1145132097
000003BD: packet v0 len=0 
bad packet len (0)
000003C1: packet v0 len=0 
bad packet len (0)
000003C5: packet v0 len=0 
bad packet len (0)
000003C9: packet v316 len=0 
bad packet len (0)
000003CD: packet v0 len=0 
bad packet len (0)
Auto-selected RM audio ID = 0



It then just sits there playing no sound or video.  I have all the real 
codecs installed AFAIK. Here is the result of mplayer -vc help|grep -i real
[clifford at localhost clifford]$ mplayer -vc help|grep -i real
: No such file or directory
Can't open '/home/clifford/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
rv40        realvid   working   Linux RealPlayer 9 RV40 decoder  
[drv4.so.6.0]
rv40win     realvid   working   Win32 RealPlayer 9 RV40 decoder  
[drv43260.dll]
rv30        realvid   working   Linux RealPlayer 8 RV30 decoder  
[drv3.so.6.0]
rv30win     realvid   working   Win32 RealPlayer 8 RV30 decoder  
[drv33260.dll]
rv20        realvid   working   Linux RealPlayer 8 RV20 decoder  
[drv2.so.6.0]
rv20win     realvid   working   Win32 RealPlayer 8 RV20 decoder  
[drv23260.dll]

and mplayer -ac help|grep -i real

[clifford at localhost clifford]$ mplayer -ac help|grep -i real
: No such file or directory
Can't open '/home/clifford/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
ra144       realaud   working   RealAudio 1.0  [14_4.so.6.0]
ra144win    realaud   working   Win32 RealAudio 1.0  [14_43260.dll]
ra288       realaud   working   RealAudio 2.0  [28_8.so.6.0]
ra288win    realaud   working   Win32 RealAudio 2.0  [28_83260.dll]
mpra1428    ra1428    working   RealAudio 1.0 and 2.0 native decoder
racook      realaud   working   RealAudio COOK  [cook.so.6.0]
racookwin   realaud   working   Win32 RealAudio COOK  [cook3260.dll]
rasipr      realaud   working   RealAudio Sipro  [sipr.so.6.0]
rasiprwin   realaud   working   Win32 RealAudio Sipro  [sipr3260.dll]
raatrc      realaud   working   RealAudio ATRAC3  [atrc.so.6.0]
raatrcwin   realaud   working   Win32 RealAudio ATRAC3  [atrc3260.dll]
ffra144     ffmpeg    untested  FFmpeg RealAudio 1.0  [real_144]
ffra288     ffmpeg    untested  FFmpeg RealAudio 2.0  [real_288]


Any help very much appreciated.

Raphael
P.S. The system is redhay 7.3 with the gcc 3.1 compiler

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