[MPlayer-users] Unplayable mms streams

[Heimdall Midgard]

I cannot play any mms streams linked off the Chinese (mainland) web
page  http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/ce_chinese/.

Links to example streams, regularly updated Chinese language lessons,
appear on the pages:

http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2432/2006-1-3/68@286037.htm (haojile.wma)
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2432/2006-1-3/68@290172.htm (LCN96.wma)

The streams themselves are:

mms://enmms.chinabroadcast.cn/new/lang/ch/daily/haojile.wma
mms://enmms.chinabroadcast.cn/news/program/LCN96.wma

Here's the output from my attempt to play the first stream:

$ mplayer mms://enmms.chinabroadcast.cn/new/lang/ch/daily/haojile.wma
MPlayer dev-CVS-060104-06:35-4.0.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron Spitfire (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx


86 audio & 201 video codecs
Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such file or directory (it should be
readable by the user.)
Playing mms://enmms.chinabroadcast.cn/new/lang/ch/daily/haojile.wma.
STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://enmms.chinabroadcast.cn/new/lang/ch/daily/haojile.wma
Resolving enmms.chinabroadcast.cn for AF_INET...
Connecting to server enmms.chinabroadcast.cn[219.142.120.30]: 1755...
Connected
read error:: Operation now in progress
pre-header read failed
Resolving enmms.chinabroadcast.cn for AF_INET...
Connecting to server enmms.chinabroadcast.cn[219.142.120.30]: 80...
Server return 404:Not Found
Failed to parse header
Failed, exiting
STREAM_HTTP(2), URL: mms://enmms.chinabroadcast.cn/new/lang/ch/daily/haojile.wma
Resolving enmms.chinabroadcast.cn for AF_INET...
Connecting to server enmms.chinabroadcast.cn[219.142.120.30]: 80...
Server returned 404: Not Found
File not found: 'enmms.chinabroadcast.cn/new/lang/ch/daily/haojile.wma'
Failed to open mms://enmms.chinabroadcast.cn/new/lang/ch/daily/haojile.wma