[MPlayer-users] Getting authentication to work

[Ajay Gautam]

> > On 11/11/06, Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski <rambo at id.uw.edu.pl> wrote:
> > > > The error I get is "connection refused" (irrespective of what
> > > > parameters I pass to mplayer)
> > >
> > > Stream server is down, no matter how you're gonna try to authenticate
>
>
> Apologies for the confusion. The server is up.
>
> Heres whats happening:
> 1. mplayer connects to 208.69.192.224 at port 1755 (mms)
> 2. Connection sucessful, but mplayer is unable to read (I guess
> because its not authenticated)
> 3. So, read fails, mplayer attempts to connect to port 80 (as fallback).
> 4. Connection fails, as correct port is 1755!
>
> Its working on windows now, so the stream server(s) are up.
>
> Help required with step 2 above.
> How do we tell mplayer to authenticate itself (similar to windows media player)?


Is there any other info I could provide that would help debug this problem ?

Thanks

Ajay