[MPlayer-users] Problem playing some asf files

[Jason Curtes]

Hi,

I use mplayer to record streaming audio and save the streams by:

mplayer -dumpstream http://server-address:[port] -dumpfile stream-1000.asf

I usually don't have any problems, but sometimes mplayer might get
killed unexpectedly, or terminate the process due to network errors. In
short, sometimes the asf files are not closed properly.

When I try to listen those incomplete asf files via mplayer, I get an
error message complaining about unknown audio format so I suspect the
problem is with the asf headers.

If I try to open the same asf files using amarok however, they play
just fine. I'm wondering how I can force mplayer to fix the broken
headers(if that's really the case), or ignore the errors and use a
specific driver/decoder. 

I'm pasting the error messages below. Thanks in advance.



MPlayer dev-SVN-r26940
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad  CPU   Q9300  @ 2.50GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing stream-1000.asf.
RAWDV file format detected.
VIDEO:  [DVSD]  720x480  24bpp  29.970 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] This driver only supports the 3Dfx Banshee, Voodoo3 and Voodoo 5.
s3fb: 8 bpp output is not supported
==========================================================================
Requested video codec family [qdv] (vfm=dshow) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffdv] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg DV decoder)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [libdv] Raw DV Audio Decoder
Unknown/missing audio format -> no sound
ADecoder init failed :(
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
Cannot find codec 'dvaudio' in libavcodec...
ADecoder init failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x56444152.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar 411P)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar 411P as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 5 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8
[swscaler @ 0xb2e130]BICUBIC scaler, from yuv411p to yuv420p using MMX2
[swscaler @ 0xb2e130]using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
[swscaler @ 0xb2e130]using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
[swscaler @ 0xb2e130]using 1-tap MMX "scaler" for vertical scaling (YV12 like)
[swscaler @ 0xb2e130]720x480 -> 720x480
VO: [xv] 720x480 => 720x480 Planar YV12 
AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
AC EOB marker is absent pos=68
AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
AC EOB marker is absent pos=64
...
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...
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...
Failed to kill(18075,27) (error 3).
Failed to kill(18075,27) (error 3).
Failed to kill(18075,27) (error 3).
Failed to kill(18075,27) (error 3).
Failed to kill(18075,27) (error 3).
Failed to kill(18075,27) (error 3).
Failed to kill(18075,27) (error 3).
Failed to kill(18075,27) (error 3).
Failed to kill(18075,27) (error 3).
Failed to kill(18075,27) (error 3).