[MPlayer-users] Re: BUG - Garbled output playing realaudio

[Neil Sleightholm]

Neil Sleightholm wrote:

> When playing the live realaudio streams from BBC website the output
> from mplayer becomes garbled - it sounds like 2 streams are playing at
> the same time but out of sync. I think this has been reported in the
> past but I haven't seen a resolution. A typical example is:
> 
>     mplayer -vo null -cache 128
> rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/radio4/live/r4_dsat_g2.ra
> 
> This will play quite happily for a while but then after a random time
> it becomes garbled. The time can be anything from a few minutes to
> hours. I think the problem coinsides with peak time access to the
> site.  Other pre-recorded streams from the site play without any
> problems. The problem seems to happen on mplayer compiled for Windows
> or Unix.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this? Can anyone suggest a resolution?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Neil

Would anyone be able to give me some tips on how to debug this or how
to go about getting a solution?

Thanks

Neil