[MPlayer-users] Cannot open mms/rstp streams (FC6)

[Dotan Cohen]

I need to view video streams (via MMS) in FC6 on my Dell Inspiron
E1505/6400 laptop at my university. Unfortunately, I cannot provide a
url for testing as the stream must be accessed by an IP address within
the university itself. The university servers does not perform UA
sniffing. Note that the streams ARE playable in VMWare virtual
machines running MS Windows XP.

This is the output of Mplayer:
[dotancohen at localhost ~]$ mplayer
mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Solid-Mech1/Solid%20Mechanics%201%20-01.wmv
MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7200  @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6,
Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Solid-Mech1/Solid%20Mechanics%201%20-01.wmv.
STREAM_ASF, URL:
mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Solid-Mech1/Solid%20Mechanics%201%20-01.wmv
Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: video9.technion.ac.il
Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET...
Connecting to server video9.technion.ac.il[132.68.1.27]: 1755...
connection timeout
Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: video9.technion.ac.il
Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET...
Connecting to server video9.technion.ac.il[132.68.1.27]: 80...

It seems as though it cannot find the server, however Windows Media
Player 11 in VMWare loads and displays that video just fine. There is
no AU sniffing at the server. What might prevent mplayer from
connecting? I have SELinux set to permisive, if that's important. I
did select to have a firewall when installing FC6, how would I check
if that's the problem? I actually don't think that the firewall is the
problem as VMWare machine DOES connect fine.

Dotan Cohen

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