[MPlayer-users] NODAEMON Problems playing a new RTSP stream with MPlayer

[Steven Ellis]

I've just tried to play the new REAL based trailers for 24 using
MPlayer, and sadly failed. I know it isn't a core networking issue as
realplay will work.

I'm beginning to wonder if they have done some smarts to detect the user
agent or if it relates to my firewall. Ive set up the http_proxy
correctly, but the streams still won't work.

Currently running MPlayer 1.0pre1-3.2.2

$ mplayer http://www.fox.com/24/video/preview_hi.rpm
Gives me -

Connected to server: www.fox.com
Cache fill:  0.02% (66 bytes)    Falling back on trying to parse
playlist http://www.fox.com/24/video/preview_hi.rpm...
============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported
=============

So I tried grabbing the RPM file with wget and extracting the URL

$ mplayer
rtsp://real.fox.speedera.net/real.fox/shows/24/24_season3_large.rm

Connecting to server real.fox.speedera.net[208.184.139.113]:554 ...
Connect error : No route to host
Unable to open URL:
rtsp://real.fox.speedera.net/real.fox/shows/24/24_season3_large.rm
Option stream url: This URL doesn't have a hostname part.
File not found: 'real.fox/shows/24/24_season3_large.rm'
Failed to open
rtsp://real.fox.speedera.net/real.fox/shows/24/24_season3_large.rm

OK so trying RTSP means it won't try and use the http_proxy. Switching
to http

$ mplayer
http://real.fox.speedera.net/real.fox/shows/24/24_season3_large.rm

Connecting to server isa.local[172.30.0.6]:8080 ...
Server returned 404: Not Found
Unable to open URL:
http://real.fox.speedera.net/real.fox/shows/24/24_season3_large.rm
Option stream url: This URL doesn't have a hostname part.
File not found: 'real.fox/shows/24/24_season3_large.rm'
Failed to open
http://real.fox.speedera.net/real.fox/shows/24/24_season3_large.rm


Hmm very odd. I get a 404.

Lets try RealPlayer again

$ realplay
rtsp://real.fox.speedera.net/real.fox/shows/24/24_season3_large.rm

Wow.. This works..

$ realplay
http://real.fox.speedera.net/real.fox/shows/24/24_season3_large.rm

And this fails

OK so it appears that something is going on at the remote server. Is
there any way to force rtsp over http without changing the URL?

Oh and by the way the trailer is very, very cool.

Steve