[MPlayer-dev-eng] Playing video from socket

[jacob]

On 11/23/06, Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at email.it> wrote:
> jacob wrote:
>
> >
> > Sorry, I'm beginning now, and also I have problems with English.
> >
> > I have a video server that sends mpeg2-ts over UDP to a specific
> > ip/port. I want that mplayer reproduces the content of the UDP
> > packets. I'm able to make this redirecting the incoming traffic (via
> > netcat) to the standard in, then with the '-' flag of mplayer I'm able
> > to see the video.
>
> not needed; mplayer udp://ip:port works.
> if you don't see anything verify that there's actual content:
>
> mplayer udp://ip:port -dumpstream -dumpfile stream.ts
> (wait some seconds then press ^C). Does stream.ts contain something?
> if so, run mplayer -v stream.ts and verify thelog
>
> >
> > My question is if mplayer have some way to reproduce the incoming
> > traffic knowing the udp port. There are no inicialization to make play
> > or other stuff, the server is playing every time.
> >
> > I have a server
>
>
> mplayer should work, but be aware that for network streams in the long
> run mplayer is not the most reliable player (after a while you'll surely
> have problems, mitigated but not completely solved adding -demuxer lavf
> -lavfdopts probesize=128)


Thanks