[MPlayer-users] Seeking in ASF Streams (MLB.com)

[Christopher Swingley]

Greetings!

Last week I posted about listening to Major League Baseball games.  It 
turns out that mplayer handles these streams just fine, once you get 
past the method the web site uses to load them.  I wrote a simple Python 
script to grab the stream URL, and open a terminal window with mplayer 
inside, playing the stream (if anyone is interested, drop me a line).

I am still having one problem.  With archived games, the streams are 
seekable when using Windows Media Player on a Windows box, but mplayer 
says "Stream not seekable!" when I try to seek in a stream (either with 
seek under '-slave', or by using the '-ss' flag on the command line).  
Typically, mplayer hangs for a few moments and then says "MPlayer 
interrupted by signal 11 in module: seek".

The streams are identified by mplayer as:

    Cache fill: 18.75% (24576 bytes)    ASF file format detected.
    ============ ASF Stream group == START ===
     object size = 32
     stream count=[0x1][1]
       stream id=[0x1][1]
       max bitrate=[0x22c4][8900]
    ============ ASF Stream group == END ===
    ===================================================================
    Opening audio decoder: [dshow] Win32/DirectShow decoders
    AUDIO: 8000 Hz, 1 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 1055->16000 (8.4 kbit)
    Selected audio codec: [acelp] afm:dshow (ACELP.net Sipro Lab Audio 
    Decoder)
    ===================================================================
    Checking audio filter chain for 8000Hz/1ch/16bit -> 8000Hz/2ch/16bit...
    AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 1 ch, 8000 hz, little endian signed int
    AF_pre: 8000Hz 1ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) 

and my mplayer version is:

    MPlayer 1.0pre3-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team

    CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 /Athlon MP/XP Palomino 1541 MHz 
    (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
    Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
    MMX2 supported but disabled
    CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
    Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2

(unstable Debian package mplayer-k7 from 
ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/)

Any thoughts?  Thanks!

Chris
-- 
Christopher S. Swingley          email: cswingle at iarc.uaf.edu
Intl. Arctic Research Center     Please use encryption.  GPG key at:
University of Alaska Fairbanks   www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/