[MEncoder-users] playing an real media file

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 13 May 2007 at 07:48, Thilanka Niroshana wrote:
> I have a problem with playing this particular real media file "
> http://webcast-east.sun.com/ramgen/archives/gsn-2228/gsn-2228_02_300.rm"
> can any one tell me why please.

That's because the stream doesn't exist:

$ mplayer -playlist http://webcast-east.sun.com/ramgen/archives/gsn-2228/gsn-2228_02_300.rm
MPlayer SVN-r22817 rpm.livna.org (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ (Family: 15, Model: 47, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Resolving webcast-east.sun.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server webcast-east.sun.com[72.5.124.126]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
100 audio & 217 video codecs
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 rtsp://72.5.125.152:554/archives/gsn-2228/gsn-2228_02_300.rm?cloakport=80,554.
Connecting to server 72.5.125.152[72.5.125.152]: 554...
librtsp: server responds: 'RTSP/1.0 404 Not Found'
rtsp_session: session can not be established.
STREAM_LIVE555, URL: rtsp://72.5.125.152:554/archives/gsn-2228/gsn-2228_02_300.rm?cloakport=80,554
This stream is non-cacheable
Stream not seekable!
 file format detected.
Failed to get a SDP description from URL "rtsp://72.5.125.152:554/archives/gsn-2228/gsn-2228_02_300.rm?cloakport=80,554": cannot handle DESCRIBE response: RTSP/1.0 404 Not Found


Exiting... (End of file)


Regards,
R.

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