[MPlayer-cygwin] Greetings!

[Diego Biurrun]

Matt Maher writes:
 > I'm very excited about mplayer (the Win32 version).  I just recently found
 > this program, and am already crazy about it.  I've already set it as the
 > default for half of my file types.  I also love not having to install
 > Quicktime or Real software.  I hate those.

:-)

 > I'm sorry for being such a newbie, but I have just two questions for the
 > list that I'd appreciate any help on.  I'm sorry if these aren't the correct
 > channels by which to ask these, but I don't know where else to ask:
 > 
 > 1) How do I stream from the web?  Can I use mplayer to play trailers on
 > sites like Quicktime's movie previews?

mplayer http://....
mplayer rtsp://....

It's all described in the man page, btw:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/manpage.html

 > 2) I'm having problems with Matroska files.  I open them up and the video
 > stutters at a constant rate.  If I look at the command window, I see that
 > this error appears to be showing up at every single frame (so it's coming up
 > hundreds of times):
 > 
 > [mpeg4 @ 0905A8A0]get_buffer() failed (stride changed)
 > Error while decoding frame!
 > 
 > That comes up hundreds of times within the first minute.  Here's everything
 > at the top of the console:

Please read

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html

and provide a few more details, at least an 'mplayer -v' log.

 > Thanks for any help I can get.  I look forward to using this program for a
 > long time to come.

:-)

Diego