[MPlayer-users] Can't use udp:// on mac osx version?

[Thomas Christensen]

On 24/08/2006, at 20.33, Ivan Kowalenko wrote:

> On Aug 24, 2006, at 12.51, Thomas Christensen wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I've seen my colleagues using mplayer on windows and linux to play  
>> multicasted mpeg-ts streams, however when I try the same on my mac  
>> osx, mplayer fails.
>
> [snip]
>
>> File not found: '@239.1.1.91:5501'
>> Failed to open udp://@239.1.1.91:5501.
>>
>>
>> Exiting... (End of file)
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> Are you sure @239.1.1.991 is a proper URL? Usually isn't there  
> something in front of the @?
Using @ means that it points to a multicast address and it works on  
the other platforms.

Thomas