[MPlayer-users] playing asf files from nfl.com

[Lethal Weapon]

On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 20:19, Ian Truelsen wrote:
it works for me

you need to get the mms:// url out of that, for example:

lynx -dump "http://youmarvelousurl"
you can read:
<ASX version = "3.0" previewmode = "no"  BannerBar = "AUTO">
        <Title>San Francisco 49ers at Oakland Raiders</Title>
        <Entry>
                <Title>San Francisco 49ers at Oakland Raiders</Title>
                <Abstract>Click here to go to our Web site</Abstract>
                <Author>Yahoo! Broadcast</Author>
                <Copyright>© 2002, All Rights Reserved.</Copyright>
                <Ref href =
"mms://wmcontent06.broadcast.com/proot2/PubShare06/nfl/49ers/1/3296812.wma?StreamID=3296812&Segment=84944&pl_b=003FFAD0A33FFAD2A800002DBA3D6927C0&ru=MozillaMSIE&sg_id=15093&CG_ID=1077621" />
        </Entry>
</ASX>


use the mms://url with your mplayer


> I am trying to access the internet audio from nfl.com, but I can't seem
> to get it to work. This is the url that I am getting from the site:
> 
> http://webevents.yahoo.com/streamlaunch/launch.asp?ei=2666&sgid=15093
> 
> When I try to load it, the message says that it is of video/x-ms-asf
> format and so I select mplayer to play it. This is from Galeon. Mplayer will then load with the message that the file or format is not recognized/supported. If this is an avi, mpg or asf file, please contact the author.
> 
> So, I tried it from a terminal. This is the output, what there is of it:
> 
> MPlayer 0.90pre6-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)
> 
> CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx
> 
> vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
> Reading /home/ian/.mplayer/codecs.conf: this codecs.conf is too old, incompatible with this mplayer release! at line 13
> Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 104 video codecs
> font: can't open file: /home/ian/.mplayer/font/font.desc
> Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
> Linux RTC init error: No such file or directory
> Using usleep() timing
> Can't open input config file /home/ian/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
> Can't open input config file /usr/share/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory
> Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
> [cfg] read config file: /home/ian/.mplayer/gui.conf
> SKIN dir 1: '/home/ian/.mplayer/Skin'
> SKIN dir 2: '/usr/share/mplayer/Skin'
> Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
> 
> And then it just sits there. I have to close the term to stop mplayer at this point.
> 
> I am currently running Linux 2.4.18 with latency and preempt patches and gcc 2.95.3.
> 
> Does anyone know how to access these radio links?
> 
> -- 
> Ian Truelsen
> Masters program in Philosophy 
> University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
> BA (Wilfrid Laurier University)
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