[MPlayer-users] .ram files and mplayer

[Jolly]

Hi! 

I'd like to mplayer to understand .ram playlists. 

$mplayer 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/homepage/int/news/vi/-/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/n24.ram

gives

Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale


MPlayer dev-CVS-030609-13:47-3.2 (C) 2000-2003 Árpád Gereöffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron SF Spitfire (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or 
directory
Reading config file /home/georg/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/georg/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open 
'/home/georg/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 58 audio & 146 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/georg/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (233 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/georg/.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: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/homepage/int/news/vi/-/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/n24.ram
Failed to create AF_INET6 socket:
Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.bbc.co.uk[212.58.224.31]:80 ...
Failed to create AF_INET6 socket:
Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.bbc.co.uk[212.58.224.31]:80 ...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Connected to server: www.bbc.co.uk
Cache fill:  0.02% (57 bytes)    Falling back on trying to parse playlist 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/homepage/int/news/vi/-/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/n24.ram...
============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported =============
=== If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author! ===


Exiting... (End of file)

However,
mplayer rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/news/n24.rm works just 
fine...

Any suggestions appreciated