[MPlayer-users] Problem with streaming realmedia files

[Malte Horst Arthur Skoruppa]

Well, RealPlayer for sure does work for me for the file from 1998, so it 
must be there.
In any case, this very command works flawlessly for me:
realplay pnm://ravi.br-online.de/ravi/alpha/centauri/v/980927.rm

But it seems like this file can't be accessed with rtsp, but only with 
pnm, which is what doesn't work with mplayer.
The newer files (like the one you linked below) can be accessed with 
both rtsp and pnm, so one can play them through rtsp, which seems to 
work with mplayer.

/So the central question is, does mplayer work with pnm at all? And if 
yes, what's that error I posted below?/

Until the problem is solved, I'm going to try with xine-ui in the 
meantime. What I'd like to do is to save those files on my hard drive, 
(mplayer -dumpstream), but I heard that xine-ui won't do that if the 
stream forbids it (which shows the difference in the philosophy behind 
mplayer and xine... which in turn is a reason to prefer mplayer, in my 
opinion; I just hate it when programs try to control me, instead of me 
controlling them... which is one of the many reasons for me using Linux 
and not Windows).

Awaiting your answers eagerly ;-)

Malte

Marty wrote:

>I couldn't get that link to work on MPlayer or RealPlayer.  RealPlayer said that it could not find that file (it is from 1998).  I was able to get MPlayer to play the first file in the list from 2004...I have RealPlayer codecs installed.  Also, there are 2 addresses in the link: a pnm address which didn't work and the one that did is:
>
>mplayer rtsp://ravi.br-online.de:5050/ravi/alpha/centauri/v/041222.rm
>
>Marty
>
>
>On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:56:45 +0100
>Malte Horst Arthur Skoruppa <malte at countnumber.de> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>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
>>
>>
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