[MPlayer-users] RealMedia - what RealAudio formats work

[Stephen Stocker]

>I've spent days and days bashing around trying everything to get
>RealAudio to stream in mplayer.
>
>I've tried MPlayer-1.0pre5 and the recent releases MPlayer-20040908
>MPlayer-20040910, with and without the recent liveMedia live.2004.09.08
>and live.2004.09.09.
>
>I've unpacked all-20040809.tar into /usr/local/lib/codecs/all-20040809
>and for good measure I have the latest RealPlayer codecs as well (in
>/usr/local/Linux/RealPlayer10GOLD/codecs).
>
>All of these get detected when I run ./configure:
>
>./configure --with-win32libdir=/usr/lib/win32 --enable-live --with-livelibdir=/
>home/echidna0/ajr/liveMedia/live --with-codecsdir=/usr/local/lib/codecs/all-200
>40809 --with-reallibdir=/usr/local/Linux/RealPlayer10GOLD/codecs
>...
>Checking for Win32 codec DLL support ... yes (using /usr/local/lib/codecs/all-2
>0040809)
>Checking for Win32 loader support ... yes
>Checking for DirectShow ... yes
>Checking for XAnim DLL ... yes (using /usr/local/lib/codecs/all-20040809)
>Checking for RealPlayer DLL ... yes (using /usr/local/Linux/RealPlayer10GOLD/co
>decs)
>Checking for LIVE.COM Streaming Media libraries ... yes (using /home/echidna0/a
>jr/liveMedia/live)
>...
>
>Looks good - yes?
>
>However, on test audio that has been mentioned here before I get:
>
>compute ajr: ./mplayer 'rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/news/olmedia/cta/progs/rn/rn_v7.
>rm'
>MPlayer dev-CVS-040910-05:00-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
>
>CPU: Intel Pentium III Katmai/Pentium III Xeon Tanner 563.7 MHz (Family: 6, Ste
>pping: 3)
>Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
>CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
>Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE
>
>Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or direct
>ory
>Reading config file /home/echidna0/ajr/.mplayer/config
>Reading /home/echidna0/ajr/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 74 audio & 180 video codecs
>font: can't open file: /home/echidna0/ajr/.mplayer/font/font.desc
>font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
>Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the user.)
>Using nanosleep() timing
>Input config file /home/echidna0/ajr/.mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds
>
>Playing rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/news/olmedia/cta/progs/rn/rn_v7.rm.
>Resolving rmv8.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET...
>Connecting to server rmv8.bbc.net.uk[212.58.224.53]:554 ...
>rtsp_session: Not a Real server. Server type is 'unknown'.
>Not a Realmedia rtsp url. Trying standard rtsp protocol.
>Connected to server: rmv8.bbc.net.uk
>Stream not seekable!
>Failed to initiate "audio/X-PN-REALAUDIO" RTP subsession: RTP payload format un
>known or not supported
>
>
>MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: demux_open
>- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
>  Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
>  disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
>- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
>  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
>  gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
>  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
>  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.
>
>
>I've also tried Debian packages and RPMs with no luck.
>
>The other test audio mentioned here is rtsp://mm4.rai.it/raitre/blob/ultimo/blo
>b.rm
>
>Does mplayer work on these streams and if so can anyone spot what I'm
>doing wrong?
>
>
>
>Tony Robinson

  Hi,

  They both work fine for me, but I can't figure out what's wrong. From
  what I can see, it looks like you're doing everything right!

  Hopefully somebody on here knows more and can offer some help, but at
  least I can say that these two streams will work with MPlayer.

  Steve