[MPlayer-users] can MPlayer play this stream?

[The Wanderer]

Krzysztof Duchnowski wrote:

> dexter pisze:
> 
>> rtsp://ia360620.us.archive.org:554/2/items/dn2007-1129_vid/dn2007-1129_256kb.mp4
> 
>> its from democracynow.org
> 
> It's something wrong with this MP4 stream:
> 
>> Unable to determine our source address: This computer has an
>> invalid IP address: 0x0
> 
> Use RealMedia or downloadable one.

On my computer, using a comparatively recent if not 100% bleeding-edge
version of the code, I do not get that message.

Instead, I get:

==
mplayer 
"rtsp://ia360620.us.archive.org:554/2/items/dn2007-1129_vid/dn2007-1129_256kb.mp4"
MPlayer dev-SVN-r25149-4.1.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE

Playing 
rtsp://ia360620.us.archive.org:554/2/items/dn2007-1129_vid/dn2007-1129_256kb.mp4.
Resolving ia360620.us.archive.org for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: ia360620.us.archive.org
Resolving ia360620.us.archive.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server ia360620.us.archive.org[208.70.25.211]: 554...
A single media stream only is supported atm.
rtsp_session: unsupported RTSP server. Server type is 'DSS/4.1.3 
(Build/412.45; Platform/Linux)'.
Resolving ia360620.us.archive.org for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: ia360620.us.archive.org
Resolving ia360620.us.archive.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server ia360620.us.archive.org[208.70.25.211]: 554...
Server returned 400: Bad Request
No stream found to handle url 
rtsp://ia360620.us.archive.org:554/2/items/dn2007-1129_vid/dn2007-1129_256kb.mp4


Exiting... (End of file)
==

and of course no playback.

My first guess would be that "400: Bad request" means either that there
is a protocol (version?) mismatch of some sort, or that there is not
actually a stream corresponding to that URL and hence the RTSP server
cannot provide one. However, I am by no means an expert in this sort of
thing.

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