[MPlayer-users] cvs again

[antoine]

Kevin DeKorte wrote:

>On Thursday 01 July 2004 10:04 am, The Wanderer wrote:
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>>antoine wrote:
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>>>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!
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>>>
>>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.
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>I just tested this site with the following command
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>mplayer -playlist 
>http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/highspeed/2004/06/av/20040614ngpfloridachimp.asx
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>And the error I get is that the host fjord.nationalgeographic.com is refusing 
>connections. So it appears the server is down.
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>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
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it likes gxine though...
Cheers
Antoine