[MPlayer-users] Playing ASF files

[Stephen Stocker]

>I'm having problems playing streaming ASF files from news.com and other
>sources. Audio works, video doesn't. This is happening on both a Gentoo
>system and a RH9 system after a fresh mplayer install. I have tried
>multiple streams from multiple sources. Any help would be greatly
>appreciated!
>
>I have all win32 codecs installed. I've searched this mailing list and
>the web, but only very few people seem to get the same error messages:
>
>    Ahhhh, stream_chunck size is too small: 4
>    Error while parsing chunk header
>    ASF: No video stream found.
>
> From what I can tell, the problem is occuring before the codec is loaded.
>
>Find full output for an example stream from news.com below. Note that
>the output pauses for a while (>20sec) before the "Ahhhh, ..." line is
>printed. My guess is that it only prints that line once the entire video
>is cached. Contact me for verbose output.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Nathan

  Hi,
  
  I don't know what the problem is, it's working fine for me, with
  Slackware. Do you have a recent CVS of MPlayer? That's all I can think
  of.

  BTW, you did get the new "essentials" codecs that Diego posted about?
  Hope this helps.

  Steve