[MPlayer-users] bad audio after 5 minutes with .rm stream

[alpha0x89 at yahoo.de]

On Saturday 24 July 2004 11:11, Antonio wrote:
> Hi to all,
> I've noticed a problem listening the following stream:
>
>    mplayer rtsp://live.media.rai.it/broadcast/radiotre.rm
>
> after a while (variable time that goes from 3 to 10 minutes) the audio
> begins to sound bad (and becomes worst with the passing time), seems
> like a lot of little fragments putted together in a casual order.
>
> With realplay I had experienced some gap (silence) with the same audio
> stream but never this king of problem.

I havn't checked your URL, but it seems to be a problem I had. Over a bad 
connection some packets get lost. MPlayer ignores this and plays the messed 
audio stream. RealPlayer recognizes when packets are missing and plays 
silence instead. It shouldn't be difficult to implement this behaviour also 
in Mplayer. (For me I hacked a little programm that reads the stream dump and 
writes it MPlayable to stdout.)