[MPlayer-users] problem connection to BBC R4 (listen again)

[Christian Ebert]

* Thorsten Altenkirch on Monday, July 20, 2009 at 11:13:55 +0100
>> 
>>> I am running the latest version of mplayer on Mac OSX (leopard).
>> 
>> Unfortunately not.
>> 
>>> MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
>> 
>> Please test latest svn before reporting problems.
> 
> Sorry, I installed from macports. I now got the latest version from
> svn, but the problem remains:
> 
> I am running the latest version of mplayer on Mac OSX (leopard).
> I am trying to convert a real audio stream from the BBC webpage to mp3.
> 
> However, I get error messages (connection refused) even though
> realplayer can play the same URL (and yes I am in the UK).
> A friend of mine tried the same it it seems to work from Linux or
> with MacOS Tiger. Any idea what the cause could be?

Nope. Works just fine here:

$ sw_vers
ProductName:	Mac OS X
ProductVersion:	10.5.7
BuildVersion:	9J61
$ mplayer -vo null -vc null -playlist 'http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/rams/inourtime_20090305.ram'
Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.bbc.co.uk
Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.bbc.co.uk[212.58.251.197]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
MPlayer SVN-r29417-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4fmcoyopa/archive/radio_4_fm_-_thursday_0900_20090305.ra?BBC-UID=64ea06e445e1f835c1839a96d15bc4240cc08d594040f1a484dfc4d6937a891a_n&SSO2-UID=.
Resolving rmv8.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: rmv8.bbc.net.uk
Resolving rmv8.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server rmv8.bbc.net.uk[212.58.224.58]: 554...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill: 17.50% (57344 bytes)
REAL file format detected.
Stream description: audio/x-pn-multirate-realaudio logical stream
Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio
[real] Audio stream found, -aid 0
Clip info:
 title: BBC Radio 4 (international)
 copyright: British Broadcasting Corporation 2009, all rights reserved.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.1 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 8010->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffcook] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg COOK audio)
==========================================================================
AO: [coreaudio] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:   9.9 (09.9) of 2580.0 (43:00.0)  1.0% 14%
Exiting... (Quit)


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