[MPlayer-users] Playing ASF files

[Nathan Funk]

I'm having problems playing streaming ASF files from news.com and other 
sources. Audio works, video doesn't. This is happening on both a Gentoo 
system and a RH9 system after a fresh mplayer install. I have tried 
multiple streams from multiple sources. Any help would be greatly 
appreciated!

I have all win32 codecs installed. I've searched this mailing list and 
the web, but only very few people seem to get the same error messages:

    Ahhhh, stream_chunck size is too small: 4
    Error while parsing chunk header
    ASF: No video stream found.

 From what I can tell, the problem is occuring before the codec is loaded.

Find full output for an example stream from news.com below. Note that 
the output pauses for a while (>20sec) before the "Ahhhh, ..." line is 
printed. My guess is that it only prints that line once the entire video 
is cached. Contact me for verbose output.

Thanks in advance!

Nathan

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nathan at nathanfunk2 download $ mplayer 
mms://a999.v0674e.c674.vm.akamaistream.net/7/999/674/3ccdde3f/cnetnews.download.akamai.com/674/4n0621intel_1_hi.asf
MPlayer 1.0pre4-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster 1615 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 4)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Reading config file /usr/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/nathan/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/nathan/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open 
'/home/nathan/.mplayer/cod                                                    
ecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 66 audio & 176 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/nathan/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such file or directory (/dev/rtc should be 
readable                                                    
by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/nathan/.mplayer/input.conf: No such 
file or d                                                   
irectory
Input config file /usr/share/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds

Playing 
mms://a999.v0674e.c674.vm.akamaistream.net/7/999/674/3ccdde3f/cnetnews.d                                                    
ownload.akamai.com/674/4n0621intel_1_hi.asf.
Resolving a999.v0674e.c674.vm.akamaistream.net for AF_INET...
Connecting to server 
a999.v0674e.c674.vm.akamaistream.net[64.215.168.20]:80 ...
Stream bitrate properties object
Max bandwidth set to 0
Resolving a999.v0674e.c674.vm.akamaistream.net for AF_INET...
Connecting to server 
a999.v0674e.c674.vm.akamaistream.net[64.215.168.3]:80 ...
Cache size set to 2048 KBytes
Connected to server: a999.v0674e.c674.vm.akamaistream.net
Cache fill: 19.92% (417792 bytes)    ASF file format detected.
Ahhhh, stream_chunck size is too small: 4
Error while parsing chunk header
ASF: No video stream found.
Clip info:
 name:
 author:
 copyright:
 comments:
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 6003->176400 (48.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm:ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (ffmpeg))
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 44100 hz, little endian signed int
AF_pre: 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
AO: [arts] Connected to sound server
AO: [arts] Stream opened
AO: [arts] buffer size: 20480
AO: [arts] packet size: 2048
AO: [arts] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
Video: no video
Starting playback...