[MPlayer-users] cvs again

[Kevin DeKorte]

On Thursday 01 July 2004 10:04 am, The Wanderer wrote:
> antoine wrote:
> > Arrggh!
> > There was obviously a heinous nasty in the latest stable release that
> > made streaming media choke in a few different ways. The cvs fixed
> > it, or did until I uninstalled it, installed the stable (to make sure
> > that it wasn't a gentoo build error as opposed to an mplayer error),
> > and then reinstalled the cvs - first the same cvs, then the absolute
> > latest (30 mins ago). F^\{!!!
> >
> > http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/highspeed/2004/06/av/20040614ng
> >pfloridachimp.asx
> >
> > can't be played now, not from a browser, not from the command line. I
> > get a message about wrong chunk sizes but it was working THIS
> > morning, ostensibly with the same version!
> >
> > I would love to know what is going on here!
>
> Well, on my end, the apparent reason for the failure is that the file
> pointed to doesn't actually exist. Specifically: the ASX file you are
> trying to play is in fact a plaintext playlist. If you don't use the
> -playlist option to tell MPlayer that, it will try to play the text file
> itself. If you do specify -playlist, or if you download the text file
> and extract the MMS URL inside by hand, you will get a different error;
> apparently either the file at that URL does not exist, or there are
> other and more obscure problems with handling said URL.
>
> Why this worked previously I'm not sure, unless it's that the file
> existed then but has since disappeared from that location.

I just tested this site with the following command

mplayer -playlist 
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/highspeed/2004/06/av/20040614ngpfloridachimp.asx

And the error I get is that the host fjord.nationalgeographic.com is refusing 
connections. So it appears the server is down.

Playing 
mms://fjord.nationalgeographic.com/channel/highspeed/2004/06/20040614ngpfloridachimp.asf.
Resolving fjord.nationalgeographic.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: fjord.nationalgeographic.com
Resolving fjord.nationalgeographic.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server fjord.nationalgeographic.com[207.24.90.73]:1755 ...
Connect error : Connection refused
Resolving fjord.nationalgeographic.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: fjord.nationalgeographic.com
Resolving fjord.nationalgeographic.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server fjord.nationalgeographic.com[207.24.90.73]:1755 ...
Connect error : Connection refused
asf_streaming_start failed
Check if this is a playlist which requires -playlist option
Example: mplayer -playlist <url>
Unable to open URL: 
mms://fjord.nationalgeographic.com/channel/highspeed/2004/06/20040614ngpfloridachimp.asf


Exiting... (End of file)


Kevin