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

[Joey Parrish]

On 4/16/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/04/07, Uwe Dippel <udippel at uniten.edu.my> wrote:
> > Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >  > Connecting to server video9.technion.ac.il[132.68.1.27]: 1755...
> > is very much fine. So is the subsequent one, trying port 80.
> >
> > When it cannot resolve, it tries IPv6.
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Somehow, your machine is simply not able to access the file.
> > It could be the firewall.
> >
>
> I have disabled IPv6 and the firewall. Still:
>
> [dotancohen at localhost ~]$ mplayer
> mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Hedva1/Hedva1-01.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/Hedva1/Hedva1-01.wmv.
> STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Hedva1/Hedva1-01.wmv
> 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_INET...
> Connecting to server video9.technion.ac.il[132.68.1.27]: 80...

Do you know how to use tethereal?  Install tethereal and issue this:
tethereal -w 1755.pcap port 1755
Then run mplayer with the URL again.  When mplayer quits, hit CTRL-C
on tethereal and send me 1755.pcap.  I will help you analyze the
traffic and figure out what's wrong.

--Joey