[MPlayer-users] Problem with Akamai RealMedia streams ...

[James T. Beaupre]

>From beaupre at mit.edu
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Hello.

Has anyone experienced a problem with Akamai RealMedia URIs for subscription 
services?

Thank you.
-James

Here is an example stream with the problem stated as not having a hostname:

Note: I was advised to replace authentication information with X's to avoid 
an abuse issue with the content providers but would be happy to discuss 
details with someone specifically interested in this problem.

The URI looks like:

"rtsp://a1974.v50221.c5022.g.vr.akamaistream.net/ondemand/7/1974/5022/v04021108/XXXXX.download.akamai.com/5022/_!/shows/2004/02/10/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.RM/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/a?"

Because they are using an exclamation point (!) it appears one has to escape the
URI to avoid a parse error.  Perhaps this is one problem that I have created?
The streams do work with a native RealPlayer.

Attempting to play the stream yields this result:

> mplayer  "rtsp://a1974.v50221.c5022.g.vr.akamaistream.net/ondemand/7/1974/5022/v04021108/XXXXX.download.akamai.com/5022/_\!/shows/2004/02/10/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.RM/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/a?"
MPlayer 1.0pre3-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 666.0 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 6)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/noone/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/noone/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 61 audio & 169 video codecs
Font /home/noone/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
Input config file /home/noone/.mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds

Playing rtsp://a1974.v50221.c5022.g.vr.akamaistream.net/ondemand/7/1974/5022/v04021108/XXXXX.download.akamai.com/5022/_!/shows/2004/02/10/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.RM/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/a?.
Not a Realmedia rtsp url. Trying standard rtsp protocol.
Connected to server: a1974.v50221.c5022.g.vr.akamaistream.net
This stream is non-cacheable
Stream not seekable!
Failed to initiate "audio/X-PN-REALAUDIO" RTP subsession: RTP payload format unknown or not supported
No stream found.


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