[MPlayer-users] won't play m3u stream

[Stephen Stocker]

>When I run "mplayer -playlist
>http://www.radioparadise.com/musiclinks/rp_128.m3u"
>
>it fails with:
>
>Playing http://64.236.34.4:80/stream/2001.
>Connecting to server 64.236.34.4[64.236.34.4]:80 ...
>Error: ICY-Server couldn"t find requested stream, skipping!
>Unable to open URL: http://64.236.34.4:80/stream/2001
>
>However, I don't think it's radio paradise fault b/c the straem works just fine
> from a web browser, which opens in XMMS.
>
>Anyway, I need to get mplayer to work, so I can listen to it thru Freevo.  Any
>idea what is wrong?
>
>I have mplayer pre1.0, running on Mandrake 9.2 for AMD 64.
>
>TIA,
>
>Mary

  Hi,

  This is weird, I can't get either MPlayer or mpg123 to work with it.
  However, looking up Radio Paradise on Shoutcast gave me their 128k
  stream, which works fine with MPlayer. 

  Here's the Shoutcast playlist for them:


[playlist]
numberofentries=5
File1=http://64.236.34.97:80/stream/2001
Title1=(#1 - 192/22931) Radio Paradise - eclectic intelligent rock - music info & listener community at radioparadise.com
Length1=-1
File2=http://64.236.34.67:80/stream/2001
Title2=(#2 - 167/18416) Radio Paradise - eclectic intelligent rock - music info & listener community at radioparadise.com
Length2=-1
File3=http://64.236.34.196:80/stream/2001
Title3=(#3 - 213/23264) Radio Paradise - eclectic intelligent rock - music info & listener community at radioparadise.com
Length3=-1
File4=http://64.236.34.4:80/stream/2001
Title4=(#4 - 1320/22442) Radio Paradise - eclectic intelligent rock - music info & listener community at radioparadise.com
Length4=-1
File5=http://207.200.96.226:8048
Title5=(#5 - 10/10) Radio Paradise - eclectic intelligent rock - music info & listener community at radioparadise.com
Length5=-1
Version=2

  Hope that helps, even though it doesn't answer your question. 

  Steve