[MPlayer-users] Streams intermittently play or don't?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 01:13:14PM +0100, Jim Cross wrote:
> Apologies for posting another issue so soon after upgrading....
> 
> I have some example streams that intermittently play and don't such as:
> http://network.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/audio/ogg/live.pls
> 
> When they play, they play without fault.
> 
> For example:
> 
> pi at raspberrypi ~ $ mplayer -novideo -nocache -volume 70 -quiet -playlist
> http://network.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/audio/ogg/live.pls

I am not absolutely sure that is the cause, but network streams with
-nocache are likely to cause you problems.
You should be using at least something like -cache 100 if at all
acceptable.

> Unknown entry type Version=2

Not sure about that one either.
Another workaround might be to try ffmpeg://http://...