[MPlayer-users] Problem with streaming realmedia files

[Malte Horst Arthur Skoruppa]

Hi!

I'm having problems getting realmedia streaming to work with mplayer.

The URI I'm trying to play is:
http://www.br-online.de/cgi-bin/ravi?v=alpha/centauri/v/&f=980927.rm
(linked from http://www.br-online.de/alpha/centauri/archiv.shtml)

Now, when I save this via the browser, I get a file called ravi.html 
containg this line:
pnm://ravi.br-online.de/ravi/alpha/centauri/v/980927.rm

When I try to play this with mplayer, I get the following:

malte at fuchur ~> mplayer 
pnm://ravi.br-online.de/ravi/alpha/centauri/v/980927.rm
MPlayer 1.0pre5try2-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton 1838 MHz (Family: 
6, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
MMX2 supported but disabled
3DNowExt supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX 3DNow SSE

Reading config file /usr/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/malte/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/malte/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open 
'/home/malte/.mplayer/codecs.conf': Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/malte/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/malte/.mplayer/input.conf: Datei oder 
Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Input config file /usr/share/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds

Playing pnm://ravi.br-online.de/ravi/alpha/centauri/v/980927.rm.
Resolving ravi.br-online.de for AF_INET...
Connecting to server ravi.br-online.de[195.37.215.74]:7070 ...
PNM:// fd=5
Cache size set to 8192 KBytes
Connected to server: ravi.br-online.de
Cache fill:  0,00% (0 bytes)    input_pnm: got message from server while 
reading stream:
You need to obtain a new player to play this clip. Please point your web 
browser to http://www.real.com and download the latest RealPlayer from 
RealNetworks. Once you have installed it you should try this clip again.
input_pnm: read error.
input_pnm: read error.
input_pnm: read error.
input_pnm: read error.
... and this goes on in stdout ...

... much more rarely, messages are printed to stderr ...
demux_real: invalid chunksize! (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)
...
Too many audio packets in the buffer: (408 in 8391474 bytes).
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
...
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)

Note that the very same stream does work well with RealPlayer.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :-)

Thanks,

Malte