[MPlayer-users] Can't play several video streams...

[Dan Naumov]

Hello list.

I've recently ran into a few streams that refuse to play with MPlayer
0.90rc5 on my system. The error is the same for all of them, here is an
example:

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 [22:07]-[jago]-[~]: mplayer
rtsp://ra.universal-music-group.com/mercrec/apocalyptica/video/apocalyp
tica_hopevolII.rm Using GNU internationalization Original domain:
messages Original dirname: /usr/local/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale

MPlayer 0.90rc5-3.2.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping:
4) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or
directory Reading config file /home/jago/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/jago/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open
'/home/jago/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading
/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs Font
/home/jago/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using usleep() timing Can't open input config file
/home/jago/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory Can't open
input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or
directory Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing
rtsp://ra.universal-music-group.com/mercrec/apocalyptica/video/apocalyp
tica_hopevolII.rm Connected to server: ra.universal-music-group.com
Stream not seekable!
Failed to initiate "audio/X-PN-REALAUDIO" RTP subsession: RTP payload
format unknown or not supported Failed to initiate
"video/X-PN-REALVIDEO" RTP subsession: RTP payload format unknown or not
supported No stream found.

Exiting... (End of file)
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I've built MPlayer using the following configure arguments:

./configure --enable-gui --with-win32libdir=/usr/local/lib/video-win32/
--with-xanimlibdir=/usr/local/lib/video-xanim/
--with-reallibdir=/usr/local/lib/video-rp9/ --enable-live
--with-livelibdir=/usr/local/lib/video-live/

the configure output shows that:

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Checking for Win32 codec DLL files path ... /usr/local/lib/video-win32/
Checking for Win32 codec DLL support ... yes
Checking for Win32 loader support ... yes
Checking for DirectShow ... yes
Checking for XAnim DLL ... yes
Checking for RealPlayer DLL ... yes
Checking for LIVE.COM Streaming Media libraries ... yes (using
/usr/local/lib/video-live/)
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I am using all the standard pre-requisites needed to play Real media
(local files work just fine) as well as streaming media (QuickTime works
just fine). I've used live.2003.03.31.tar.gz for obtaining the LIVE.COM
libs. This is on a FreeBSD 5.0-p7 i386 system with the default GCC 3.2.1

Some other example problematic URLs:
rtsp://ra.polygram.de/mercrec/apocalyptica/video/nothing.rm
rtsp://ra.universal-music-group.com/mercrec/apocalyptica/video/apocalyp
tica_path_film.rm

Any ideas on what could be causing the problem ? Thanks !
-- 
Dan Naumov <dan.naumov at ofw.fi>