[MPlayer-users] Problems with smil file

Sun Jul 9 01:55:28 CEST 2006

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:03:17 -0700
Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net> wrote:

> The following smil file causes problems for mplayer:
> 
>         <smil>
>         <meta name="title" content="Fresh Air from WHYY and NPR - Thursday, July 6, 2006" />
>         <meta name="author" content="http://www.npr.org/" />
>         <meta name="copyright" content="2006" />
>         <body>
>         <audio src="http://web.lightningcast.net/servlets/getAd?version=4.5a&naid=175&playerid=1&streamref=10013&attr=[Topics,No Topic]&session=U785993921148759976266&spot=[0,0]&ext=.rm" />
>         <audio src="rtsp://real.npr.org:80/real.npr.na-central/fa/20060706_fa_01.rm" title="'Talking Right': Why the Left Is Losing, Linguistically" author="Fresh Air from WHYY and NPR - Thursday, July 6, 2006" copyright="2006" />
>         <audio src="rtsp://real.npr.org:80/real.npr.na-central/fa/20060706_fa_02.rm" title="Army Chaplain Ran Dolinger" author="Fresh Air from WHYY and NPR - Thursday, July 6, 2006" copyright="2006" />
>         </body>
>         </smil>
> 

There is a bug that prevents mplayer to detect EOF in the first stream,
the same happens if you wget the file and play it. I'll look into it.

But that file is a multirate file, and usually it can't be streamed (it
works just because it's audio-only).

BTW MPlayer support for smil files is minimal, it just does a
brufe-force search for "audio src" and "video src" sections and gets
the urls.

If you copy the rtsp urls and use them with mplayer they play fine.

Ciao,
 Roberto