[MPlayer-users] Re: Silence when playing wma stream (possibly bug) (Roberto Togni)

[Václav Dvorák]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 at 23:52, you wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >will somebody take a look at this possibly bug? I've sent it about month ago to
> > the forum and have got no response so far. As I reported there, it occurs (lon
> >g silence periods) only when playing 8kb or 16kb mms streams.
> >The original message: Subject: [MPlayer-users] No sound when playing wma9spdmo
> >(Windows Media Audio 9 Speech DMO) streams
> >
> >  Since then I've found more problematic stations, here are  examples:
> >URL=http://live.atlas.cz/cro6/cro6-8.asx:
> >mms://netshow3.atlas.cz/cro6-8   - has problems [wma9spdmo]
> >URL=http://live.atlas.cz/cro6/cro6-16.asx :
> >mms://netshow3.atlas.cz/cro6-16  - problems ""
> >mms://netshow3.atlas.cz/cro6-32  - ok [ffwmav2]
> >
> >mms://netshow3.atlas.cz/cro2-10 - problems ""
> >mms://netshow3.atlas.cz/cro2-20 - ok [ffwmav2]
> >
> >mms://netshow3.atlas.cz/cro1-10 - problems ""
> >mms://netshow3.atlas.cz/cro1-20 - ok [ffwmav2]
> >
> >mms://netshow3.atlas.cz/cro3-10 - problems ""
> >mms://netshow3.atlas.cz/cro3-20 - ok
> >
> >- this stream has fewer problems (fewer silence periods):
> >mms://netshow3.atlas.cz/reginapraha-10  [wma9spdmo]
> >
> >- in contrary, this stream is always ok:
> >mms://netshow3.atlas.cz/crosever16  [wma9spdmo]
> >
> >The asx URLs for all streams can be found here:
> >http://www.rozhlas.cz/audio/vysilani
> >
> >Maybe the possible reason for this behaviour is the additional info continously
> > sent in streams (indicated as "Unknown extra header dump").
> >
> >regards,
> >
> >     Václav Dvorák
> >------------------------------
> >ICQ-68882252, wacd(at)volny.cz
> 
>   Hi,
> 
>   Just to verify your results, the only two of the streams above which I
>   can play are the last two. The rest of them give me xruns of varying
>   length with ALSA, and dead silence with OSS output.
> 
>   This is kind of strange, I can't tell whether it's an issue with the
>   decoding or if it's in the stream transport itself. 
> 
>   Anyway, FWIW, it's also broken for me (except the last 2).
> 
>   Steve

It's just as you have written. If it's in the stream transport, cutting out the stream's parts making silence could help. All [ffwmav2] streams play to me ok (with ALSA and last mplayer CVS version)
regards,
Vaclav