[MPlayer-users] realplayer streams

[Nick Rout]

try the option -playlist before the url. Often .ram files simply contain
a redirection to the real stream (pun sort of intended)


On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:07:39 -0700
RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:

> Hello i am having difficulty getting mplayer to work with rm streams.  
> this is the one i wish to play
> http://www.cbc.ca/clips/national/thenational.ram
> I have the latest vesion of mplayer installed and think i have all the 
> codecs too.   Using a windoze box but also am having the same problems 
> with the freebsd port version. 
> 
> C:\Program Files\mplayer>mplayer -cache 32 
> http://www.cbc.ca/clips/national/then
> ational.ram
> MPlayer dev-CVS-050928-16:38-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 4)
> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
> To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with 
> --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
> 
> c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf doesn't look like a font description, ignoring.
> Cannot load font: c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf
> Playing http://www.cbc.ca/clips/national/thenational.ram.
> STREAM_HTTP(1), URL: http://www.cbc.ca/clips/national/thenational.ram
> Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server www.cbc.ca[84.53.143.142]:80 ...
> Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server www.cbc.ca[84.53.143.142]:80 ...
> Cache size set to 32 KBytes
> Cache fill:  0.40% (131 bytes)
> 
> Exiting... (End of file)
> 
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Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz>