[MPlayer-users] Live radio stream dies immediately

[rcooley]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:26:54 +0200
Morten Skaarup Jensen <kopweb at worldonline.dk> wrote:

> http://www.antfarm.co.za/clients/yfm/yfm_16.asx ) work fine, but the
> stereo streams (e.g. http://www.antfarm.co.za/clients/5fm/5fm_22.asx )
> give a short initial burst of sound and then the sound disappears. I
> use MPlayer 1.0pre5.tar.bz downloaded and compiled by myself about a
> week ago on Linux.

Add "-ac divx" to your command-line, and they will work fine.  ffwmav2
clearly has a problem handling the stream, and it's listed as an
"untested" codec.  Wonder why it's the default?