[MPlayer-users] mplayer cannot reproduce rm file

[Hernan Badino]

Hello everybody!

I have successfully installed MPlayer-1.0pre8. I run

mplayer -dumpstream 
rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0606282.rm -dumpfile 
dol0606282.rm

and it works but with the following suspicious output:
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MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU:         Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 
13, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Warning unknown option ffourcc at line 2
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the 
user.)
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Permission denied
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0606282.rm.
STREAM_RTSP, URL: rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0606282.rm
Resolving ms.espectador.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: ms.espectador.com
Resolving ms.espectador.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server ms.espectador.com[200.40.136.16]: 554...
sdpplin: got 'm=', but 'a=StreamCount' is still unknown. Broken sdp?
Cache size set to 640 KBytes
Stream EOF detected
Core dumped ;)

Exiting... (End of file)
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the line

sdpplin: got 'm=', but 'a=StreamCount' is still unknown. Broken sdp?

is very suspicious but everything works. At least I get a file 
dol0606282.rm. Now I want to play this file without success running:

mplayer dol0606282.rm

and I get the following output:
___________________________________

MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU:         Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 
13, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Warning unknown option ffourcc at line 2
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the 
user.)
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Permission denied
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing dol0606282.rm.
REAL file format detected.
demux_real: invalid chunksize! (0)
No stream found.


Exiting... (End of file)
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Something similar happens if I want to play directly the stream from the 
server:

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badino at crtdhks1l0167[~/mp3/rms]>mplayer 
rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0606282.rm
MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU:         Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 
13, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Warning unknown option ffourcc at line 2
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the 
user.)
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Permission denied
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0606282.rm.
STREAM_RTSP, URL: rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0606282.rm
Resolving ms.espectador.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: ms.espectador.com
Resolving ms.espectador.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server ms.espectador.com[200.40.136.16]: 554...
sdpplin: got 'm=', but 'a=StreamCount' is still unknown. Broken sdp?
Cache size set to 640 KBytes
Cache fill: 18.75% (122880 bytes)
REAL file format detected.
demux_real: invalid chunksize! (0)
No stream found.


Exiting... (End of file)
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I'm not a expert so I don't know what the problem could be. I've 
searched everywhere but didn't find an answer. With realplayer I can 
play the file from the server but not the one I downloaded. I looked 
inside the dol0606282.rm file and it seems to be a correct .rm file (at 
least in comparison with another .rm files which do work with mplayer 
and realplayer).

Any ideas?

Hernan