[MPlayer-users] Re: VOD and mplayer

[Ross Finlayson]

>Here is the error that mplayer gives:
>
>   Playing 
> rtsp://hollywood.unizh.ch/PLAY/Channels/0008/de/QuickTime/Archive/03_11_04-08_24_27/Video200k/index.mov
>   Not a Realmedia rtsp url. Trying standard rtsp protocol.
>   Connected to server: hollywood.unizh.ch
>   This stream is non-cacheable
>   Stream not seekable!
>   Failed to get a SDP description from URL 
> "rtsp://hollywood.unizh.ch/PLAY/Channels/0008/de/QuickTime/Archive/03_11_04-08_24_27/Video200k/index.mov": 
> cannot handle DESCRIBE response: RTSP/1.0 404 Not Found
>
>So it seems that it's trying to use SDP, even though VoD does not use SDP.

No, the problem is simply that the RTSP server responded with an error: 
"404 Not Found".

In other words, there was no such movie on the server.  In other words, 
your "rtsp://" URL was incorrect.

>Can we still use mplayer to stream the content at
>
> 
>rtsp://hollywood.unizh.ch/PLAY/Channels/0008/de/QuickTime/Archive/03_11_04-08_24_27/Video200k/index.mov

No, you can't use *anything* to stream that content, because it doesn't 
exist :-)

(Note that QuickTime Player gives me the same error - 404 Not Found - when 
I try to play that URL.)

If you give MPlayer a correct "rtsp://" URL - for a stream that actually 
exists - it should work.


	Ross Finlayson
	LIVE.COM
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