[MPlayer-users] mplayer and the possibility of streaming

[Michael G Thomas]

http://www.chess.fm/audio.php actually links to mplayer home. Very nice 
for mplayer is the possibility of streaming I would like to access the 
stream on the webpage but I think the command they suggest is wrong. 
Here is output of "mplayer http://www.chess.fm/live.asx -cache 10" :

MPlayer 0.90rc2-RPM-3.1 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 4)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with RUNTIME CPU Detection - warning, it's not optimal! To get 
best performance, recompile MPl
ayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/mike/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/mike/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open 
'/home/mike/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or
directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 49 audio & 125 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/mike/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
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
Can't open input config file /home/mike/.mplayer/input.conf : No such 
file or directory
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed : 50 binds

Playing http://www.chess.fm/live.asx
Resolving www.chess.fm ...
Connecting to server www.chess.fm[64.246.26.94]:80 ...
Resolving www.chess.fm ...
Connecting to server www.chess.fm[64.246.26.94]:80 ...
Connected to server: www.chess.fm


Playing http://easylink.playstream.com/winlive/chessfm.asx
Resolving easylink.playstream.com ...
Connecting to server easylink.playstream.com[64.95.53.26]:80 ...
Resolving easylink.playstream.com ...
Connecting to server easylink.playstream.com[64.95.53.26]:80 ...
=====> ASF Redirector
Connected to server: easylink.playstream.com


Playing mms://64.95.53.21/chessfm
Connecting to server 64.95.53.21:80 ...
Server return 400:Bad Request
Failed to parse header
Connecting to server 64.95.53.21:1755 ...
connected

and an interminable hang. no sound.