[FFmpeg-user] Problem with decoding an MP3 stream introduced after April 6th

[Dennis Volodomanov]

Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>
> In the past, ffmpeg used a ffmpeg-specific user agent
> when opening http streams, it now uses a common string
> to allow access to http servers that expect a "normal"
> browser.
>
> Workaround is to use:
> $ ffmpeg -user-agent something_random -i http://radio.retro-retro.ru
>
> See ticket #2265 for a similar (Google-) page that
> also behaves strangely, unfortunately in the
> opposite way.

Thank you - that works. I saw that change, but would've never guessed 
that the server would fail to reply without a user-agent.

    Dennis