[MPlayer-users] Re: mplayer and firewall/NAT (Kevin DeKorte)

[Michaela Merz]

> Michaela Merz wrote:
>> Hello everybody:
>>
>> I am still having problems getting realvideo streams to run. However, I
>> tracked the problem down to my firewall/NAT. Somehow, my Linksys RV042
>> router seems to have a problem. I used the very same mplayer on a node
>> directly connected to the net and it played without problems.
>>
>> Question(s): Are there any known solutions to firewall/NAT issues with
>> mplayer? How might I be able to get my streams through this (obviously
>> broken)  router/firewall? realplayer switches to RTSP over HTTP, a neat
>> trick mplayer can't do. HTTP_PROXY doesn't work, tried that one
>> allready.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Michaela
>
>
> Have you tried this mplayer option:
>
>
>       -rtsp-stream-over-tcp (live.com only)

Kevin:

Yes. But since live.com does NOT transport any Real streams, it won't make
a difference (I tried it anyway though). mplayer doesn't support RTSP over
HTTP and that seems to be the only possibility for me to get streams over
my crappy Linksys router.

I would appreciate any help I can get.

Michaela