[MPlayer-users] Realmedia support?

[Stephen Stocker]

  Hello,

  I'm wondering what's happened with Realmedia support for MPlayer? I've
  posted several messages pertaining to the recent problems with some
  sites' files, but haven't heard anything. I can't post a bug report,
  since in all cases that I've seen, there's virtually no information
  which gives a clue as to what codec these files use.

  The latest one (npr.org) *does* show a codec identifier, but from what
  I can tell, I don't think the information is correct. If necessary, I
  can upload the file, though it appears that all NPR real files are
  broken. This is the same situation I encountered with
  http://www.cbsnews.com, who changed something in their Real file
  format. I've been using MPlayer successfully with Realmedia ever since
  it was first made available with the rp8 and rp9 libs, so I assume
  I've got what I need.

  Anyone with any ideas on this? Thanks.


  	Take care,
	Steve


>  Hi,
>
>  Trying to play a realaudio file at:
>pnm://audio.npr.org/atc/19981117.atc.ra?start="00:46:03.700"&end="00:59:04.920"
>
>  I get the following error:
>
>---
>
>MPlayer dev-CVS-040217-19:57-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
>
>CPU: Intel Pentium MMX P55C 200.7 MHz (Family: 5, Stepping: 3)
>Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
>CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
>Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX
>
>Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
>Reading config file /home/lpar/.mplayer/config
>Reading /home/lpar/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 63 audio & 169 video codecs
>CommandLine: '-v' '-playlist' '19981117.atc.13.ram'
>get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/lpar/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
>Font /home/lpar/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
>Using MMX Optimized OnScreenDisplay
>Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
>get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/lpar/.mplayer/input.conf'
>Parsing input config file /home/lpar/.mplayer/input.conf
>Input config file /home/lpar/.mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds
>get_path('menu.conf') -> '/home/lpar/.mplayer/menu.conf'
>Menu inited: /home/lpar/.mplayer/menu.conf
>get_path('19981117.atc.ra?start="00:46:03.700"&end="00:59:04.920".conf') -> '/h
>ome/lpar/.mplayer/19981117.atc.ra?start="00:46:03.700"&end="00:59:04.920".conf'
>
>Playing pnm://audio.npr.org/atc/19981117.atc.ra?start="00:46:03.700"&end="00:59
>:04.920".
>Resolving audio.npr.org for AF_INET...
>Connecting to server audio.npr.org[216.35.221.79]:7070 ...
>PNM:// fd=6
>Cache size set to 64 KBytes
>Connected to server: audio.npr.org
>CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0  pre:0  eof:0
>Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
>Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
>Checking for REAL
>REAL file format detected.
>real: Header size: 18
>real: Header object version: 0
>real: File version: 0
>Chunk: PROP (504f5250) (size: 0x32, offset: 0x12)
>First index chunk offset: 0x0
>First data chunk offset: 0x178
>Chunk: CONT (544e4f43) (size: 0x5d, offset: 0x44)
>Chunk: MDPR (5250444d) (size: 0xcd, offset: 0xa1)
>Found new stream (id: 0)
>skip_str: 31 bytes skipped
>skip_str: 21 bytes skipped
>==> Found audio stream: 0
>Found audio stream!
>version: 3
>frame_size: 25956
>sub_packet_size: 8241
>samplerate: 12599, channels: 26740
>skip_str: 116 bytes skipped
>read_str: 0 bytes read
>Audio: Unknown (XþM@ ÖM@)
>======= WAVE Format =======
>Format Tag: 65112 (0xFE58)
>Channels: 26740
>Samplerate: 12599
>avg byte/sec: 8000
>Block align: 25956
>bits/sample: 14352
>cbSize: 0
>===========================
>### skipping -67 bytes of codec info
>Chunk: DATA (41544144) (size: 0x0, offset: 0x16e)
>demux_real: invalid chunksize! (0)
>Packets in file: 0
>Auto-selected RM audio ID = 0
>Clip info:
> name: All Things Considered 11/17/98
> author: http://www.npr.org/
> copyright: National Public Radio 1998
>==========================================================================
>Cannot find codec for audio format 0xFFFFFE58.
>Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
>==========================================================================
>Audio: no sound
>Freeing 0 unused audio chunks
>Video: no video
>Freeing 0 unused video chunks
>
>DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x85c07a8
>DEMUXER: freeing sh_audio at 0x85bd008
>
>Exiting... (End of file)
>
>---
>
>  Can anyone help? TIA.
>
>        Take care,
>        Steve