[MPlayer-users] video streaming -PROTOCOL problem?

[Daniel Mladek]

Thanks to all how helped me with mplayer to watch videostreaming 
throught the PROXY.
So, now I have corectly set my sys.enviroment varibale:
'http_proxy=http://webcache.xxx.xxx.com:8080'

and using today's cvs snapshot:
MPlayer CVS-020208-06:00-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002

so, it works, but not with everything.
And the problem is 'Unknown protocol: mms ', isn't it?
Or is it a codec's problem?


better will be put here output from console:
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[danielm at dmladek-linux danielm]$ mplayer 
http://live.atlas.cz/bonton/fromhell2856.asx


MPlayer CVS-020208-06:00-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

CPU vendor name: GenuineIntel  max cpuid level: 2
CPU: Intel Pentium III Katmai/Pentium III Xeon Tanner (Type: 6, Stepping: 3)
Testing OS support for SSE... yes.
Testing OS support for SSE unmasked exceptions... yes.
Tests of OS support for SSE passed.
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with features: MMX MMX2 SSE
Reading /home.local/danielm/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open 
'/home.local/danielm/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 29 audio & 77 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home.local/danielm/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 
chars)
Linux RTC init: open: No such device
Using usleep() timing
Playing http://live.atlas.cz/bonton/fromhell2856.asx
Using HTTP proxy: http://webcache.xxx.xxx.com:8080
Connecting to server webcache.xxx.xxx.com:8080 ...
Content-Type: [video/x-ms-asf]
Content-Length: [626]
Trying ASF/HTTP...
Connecting to server webcache.xxx.xxx.com:8080 ...
=====> ASF Redirector
Connected to server: ed

*** free_stream() called ***
Playing mms://netshow.atlas.cz/bonton/from_hell2856.wmv
Trying ASF/UDP...
   ===> ASF/UDP failed
Trying ASF/TCP...
   ===> ASF/TCP failed
Trying ASF/HTTP...
Connecting to server netshow.atlas.cz:80 ...
Connect error : No route to host
   ===> ASF/HTTP failed
Unknown protocol: mms
asf_streaming_start failed
Unable to open URL: mms://netshow.atlas.cz/bonton/from_hell2856.wmv

Exiting... (End of file)
[danielm at dmladek-linux danielm]$
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Or is it something with stream cache/buffer as someone wrote me?
Mentioned URL is functional with M$WindowsMediaPlayer

 > There is a small problem however...
 >
 > by default - the mplayer caches about %13 of the video (or so it 
seems) and
 > then it plays the video & continues to stream - so far, so good...
 >
 > However - when the cache pools has dropped to %0 - both the video 
play and
 > the caching system are running without "waiting" for each other...
 >
 > I think it would be a good idea that if the cache has become %0 - to 
"freeze"
 > playback and let it fill back to the %13, and then continue the 
playback -
 > thats how Windows Media player & Real player do the job...
 >
 > Just a thought...
 >
 > Hetz


thanks
-Daniel