[MPlayer-users] RTSP audio doesn't work

Roberto Togni rxt at rtogni.it
Sun Feb 11 22:18:19 CET 2007


On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:10:24 +0100
Paulus Esterhazy <pesterhazy at gmx.net> wrote:

> Revered developers, fellow users,
> 
> I cannot seem to play a realaudio stream w/ mplayer. It doesn't play 
> directly, and doesn't dump the audio. I'm using the following command line:
> 
> mplayer -v -nocache -dumpaudio -playlist 
> 'http://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/061022.ram'
> 
> Outputs ends with:
> 
> [...]
> VIDEO:  RV40 [40003000,00081020]  160x120  (aspect 0.00)  15.00 fps
> AUDIO:  cook [6B6F6F63]
> VIDEO:  [RV40]  160x120  24bpp  15.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
> 
> Then it just sits there, no audio output. One guess is the reason it 
> doesn't work is that there's a single image frame embedded in the stream 
> which is shown in RealPlayer, but causes trouble form mplayer.
> 
> It works with RealPlayer. I'm running the latest tarball from mplayerhq.
> 
> Any idea how to fix it?
> 

Bug confirmed.
If you wait long enough you will see a picture and some "audio eof"
messages.
There are 3 streams in that file, this may be the cause of the problem.
I'll look into it.

Ciao,
 Roberto



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