[MPlayer-users] Re: new realaudio codec? "got message from server"

[michael higgins]

adland wrote:

>>Basically, I'm writing a simple wrapper to launch the radio program(me)s 
>>by name, rather than by url.
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> I wrote something similar which stores such links in a mysql database.
> you can try from http://adland123.tripod.com
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>>>I don't know how to fix it, but if the stream is also available as rtsp  
>>>(that's true for your link), yust replace pnm://... with rtsp://...
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>>Well, I tried this, and it did not work for me.
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> Just a note RTSP protocol support is provided by the external
>  live.com package.
> you should download,build,install this first.
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'Bingo'. For some reason, I'd had it with compiling that day and didn't 
got the extra bit and get these libs.

So, this will fix this problem? How is it I can play most of these files 
now?

> then when building mplayer do ./configure --enable-live
> 
> it is disabled by default.
> could explain why it failed for you.
> I tested it to play on my system.

IOW, you have compiled the live dot com in your mplayer and it plays the 
stream I couldn't play without these libs and codecs?

Cool. I'm wgetting the tarball now.

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>>I'm not so familiar with 
>>all the various offerings I'm accessing, but, where exactly did you find 
>>the same stream? I didn't see it. 
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> It may not be advertised but it is still available..
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>>If this were true it'd be a workaround 
>>for me as I could just replace the string if it occurs.
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> Yes but this only works however if the remote server provides rtsp support
>  for the stream. fortunately for you this is very common.
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Well, hope that beefing up the binaries will solve the problem even better.

Thanks for your feedback,

-- mike higgins