[MPlayer-users] watching us presidential debate

[Heine Laursen]

Miles Nordin wrote:
> I've been trying to watch the US presidential debate from cspan.org
> with mplayer, and have gotten nothing watchable the last three
> debates.
> 
> This time I was going to try this URL from nl.indymedia.org:
> 
> mplayer -cache 256 -fs -quiet "mms://rx-lvl3-ny08.rbn.com/farm/pull/tx-rbn-sea30:1759/wmtencoder/cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan2v.asf"
> 
> but I wonder if others have gotten a better result with the last
> debates?  The two stream formats linked from cspan.org's page seem to
> play only with binary codecs that are buggy on my installation, so
> indymedia refers me to this third format, but it seems to be a very
> low-bandwidth stream and not really adequate for seeing Bush's idiotic
> facial expressions.

I just tryed to play the stream with your commands, and the faces look 
quite funny. However if i remove the -cache option, the stream looks 
mutch better. I have read something about the -cache option should be buggy!

My version is: MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.3.4