[MPlayer-users] Trouble with RealAudio streams

[Michael Crider]

I have compiled and installed Mplayer v1.0pre7try2 from source code on 
Ubuntu Dapper, and am having trouble playing any RealAudio streams
from oneplace.com.  When I issue the following command (for example):
mplayer -playlist 
http://boss.streamos.com/real/swn/oneplace/rm/ffd/ffd20060410.ram

I get:
d68b.rm?ts=1144669774&ttl=300&cs=CB37CFC2AC4F5F85416FFCE7D776C8107AB15BDD.
Resolving grm29.streamos.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server grm29.streamos.com[69.27.174.120]:554 ...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Connected to server: grm29.streamos.com
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
rdt chunk not recognized: got 0x53
rdt chunk not recognized: got 0x4d
Cache fill:  0.08% (278 bytes)    REAL file format detected.
Stream description: Audio Stream
Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio
RM: No audio stream found -> no sound.
No stream found.

I have played these streams in the past (with exactly this syntax) on 
previous installations of MPlayer, so I know it used to work, but I 
haven't tried for a while.  I am guessing it is a change at the server 
end, because an installation of MPlayer I used to use on Ubuntu Hoary 
can't play the streams now either.  The stream does play fine in 
RealPlayer for Linux.