[MPlayer-users] Re: Playing americafree.tv mov streams

[Ross Finlayson]

>Bug report / failure / limitation
>
>I succesfully compiled the recent mplayer on Redhat 9 (pentium 4), which
>makes for a good player, praises due.
>
>I enabled rtsp and hoped to be able to play streams like:
>
>    http://www.americafree.tv/unicast_mov/AmericaFreeTVDimensionB.mov
>
>But the player starts up, reports no errors, but simply stops, no image,
>no sound, no messages.
>Anything I can do about this?

Yes.  If you download that ".mov" file, and look at it (with a text 
editor), you'll see an embedded "rtsp://" URL:
         rtsp://streaming.multicasttech.com/AmericaFreeTVDimensionB.sdp

If you open *that* URL with MPlayer, you should be able to play the stream 
(provided, of course, that you've configured MPlayer to use the "LIVE.COM 
Streaming Media" libraries, and the FAAC MPEG-4 decoder).

Yes, MPlayer's ".mov"-file decoding module should probably be smart enough 
to handle embedded "rtsp://" URLs like this...


	Ross Finlayson
	LIVE.COM
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