[MPlayer-users] RE: Welcome to the "MPlayer-users" mailing list

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:09:28PM +0800, Yang Sun wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi, everyone:
> 
> I am a niebie to this great tool. Now I have some problems when I use the mplayer
> to listen to some asf file.
> 
> I have downloaded the mplayer-common (1192 KB), mplayer (1557 KB), 
> mplayer-gui (1831 KB) , and default skin package (213 KB) specified on the page ftp://ftp.falsehope.com/home/rathann/mplayer.html. I think it is the most recent
> stable version, isn't it?
> 
> After downloading it, I have successfully installed the four rpms. Now I can use mplayer
> and gmplayer in the /usr/bin/ directory to start the mplayer application. Now I want to
> listen to the internet radio. So I type the following command.
> $mplayer free.asf
> the free.asf contain the internet address of the radio station. And I can use it in Win2k
> machine with the MP9.
> 
> But mplayer said the following error occurs.
> LMLM4 Stream Format not found 
> 
> How I should do to remove this problem? 

Please follow the instructions in the manual and send the _entire_
_uncut_ output of MPlayer to the list. The "LMLM4 Stream Format not
found" message is probably not relevant, so we need to see what other
messages MPlayer is giving in order to be able to help.

Rich