[MPlayer-users] MPlayer streaming trough proxy fails

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 03:54:36PM +0200, armin.gerritsen at philips.com wrote:
> >> Failed to create AF_INET6 socket:
> >>
> >> error, and comes into an infinite loop of retyring, gving the error,
> >> retying, etc.
> 
> 
> > Use NAT, or a transparent proxy
> 
> Like I said: the proxy isn't the problem because the same streams play
> nicely through the proxy with players like Windows Media Player etc. So the
> problem is related to MPlayer or some configuration-option on the
> Linux-system I use.

AF_INET6 is IPv6 ...
Have you tried to use IPv6 on your network? Because it seems your system
does not have IPv6 support in the kernel ...

Maybe you should run ./configure of MPlayer with switch --disable-inet6,
and recompile MPlayer ...

- Gábor (larta'H)