[MPlayer-users] an url which plays with realplayer doesn't play with mplayer

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Mon Jul 16 19:02:55 CEST 2007


On Monday, 16 July 2007 at 09:42, josh at techlab.cviatlanta.org wrote:
> Hello,
> I am using the latest svn as of this writing, and am having trouble getting mplayer to play the following url:
> rtsp://video.rootvision.net/xxc17.smil
> realplayer will happily play this, but mplayer dies with the message `stream eof detected'.  

It's a playlist. One that mplayer cannot parse, apparently. However, if you
-dumpstream it, you can look inside and see the real URL:

rtsp://gamma.rootvision.net/1.rm

This plays fine here.

Regards,
R.

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