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

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On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 14:32:42 +0200
Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 01:13:14PM +0100, Jim Cross wrote:
> > pi at raspberrypi ~ $ mplayer -novideo -nocache -volume 70 -quiet -playlist
> > http://network.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/audio/ogg/live.pls
> > Resolving network.absoluteradio.co.uk for AF_INET...
> > Connecting to server network.absoluteradio.co.uk[31.186.234.199]: 80...
> > 
> > Cache size set to 0 KBytes
> > Unknown entry type Version=2
> > MPlayer SVN-r37303-4.6 (C) 2000-2014 MPlayer Team
> > 
> > Playing http://icecast.timlradio.co.uk/vr32.ogg.
> > Resolving icecast.timlradio.co.uk for AF_INET...
> > Connecting to server icecast.timlradio.co.uk[31.186.234.213]: 80...
> > 
> > Name   : Absolute Radio
> > Genre  : Rock
> > Website: http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk
> > Public : yes
> > Bitrate: Quality -1.00kbit/s
> > Cache size set to 0 KBytes
> > Stream not seekable!
> > libavformat version 56.10.100 (internal)
> > libavformat file format detected.
> > Stream not seekable!
> 
> Huh? You seem to be using -demuxer lavf or have demuxer=lavf in some
> config file?
> Actually, more likely you didn't have libogg-dev installed when you
> compiled, thus forcing it to use libavformat.
> If this is a Debian or Ubuntu, try "apt-get build-dep mplayer", that
> will install everything the original distribution package used to
> compile MPlayer.

> As said, libavformat is problematic with streaming.

Never had many problems with it. I had to implement shoutcast support
in ffmpeg, but of course that's not needed for correct function, just
for this tag-like extra information. You should use mime-type mapping
of formats to demuxers to stop libavformat to spend megabytes of data on
probing.

> You absolutely have to use -cache with that one.
> With the default -demuxer ogg it works fine, but you only
> have that available if you install libogg-dev before configuring.