[MPlayer-users] mms address not working (MacIntel)

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>
> Thank you Daniele and Reimar for your replies. I agree, that address 
> is sometimes down and in general not very reliable : (
> But I tried to connect simultaneously with a Linux machine and my mac 
> at the time when the server was up and it worked with Linux but not 
> with the Mac. The port problem was only what I could think of as an 
> explanation - what else could it be? I read somewhere that the next 
> version of mplayer for mac os x should fix some small problems with a 
> few codecs; could it be related?
>
>
>     thank you again,
>       nesco.

Too dificult to guess! It does not work on windows either! I don't think 
is a problem of your client!
The stream seem to be an "asf" file.
More probably the server reached the maximum number of user and you 
simply were lucky at the single occasion you were connecting with linux,
and/or the server is misconfigured.
Daniele

PS.
if you use the option -v you get:

mplayer -v mms://85.18.163.164
MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, 
Stepping: 8)

CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
CommandLine: '-v' 'mms://85.18.163.164'

Playing mms://85.18.163.164.
get_path('sub/') -> 'C:/Programmi/video/mplayer/mplayer/sub/'
WINSOCK2 init: 0
Filename for url is now mms://85.18.163.164
Filename for url is now mms://85.18.163.164
STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://85.18.163.164
Trying ASF/UDP...
  ===> ASF/UDP failed
Trying ASF/TCP...
Connecting to server 85.18.163.164[85.18.163.164]: 1755...
connection timeout
  ===> ASF/TCP failed
Trying ASF/HTTP...
Connecting to server 85.18.163.164[85.18.163.164]: 80...
connection timeout
  ===> ASF/HTTP failed
Failed, exiting.
WINSOCK2 init: 0
Filename for url is now mms://85.18.163.164
Filename for url is now mms://85.18.163.164
STREAM_HTTP(2), URL: mms://85.18.163.164
Connecting to server 85.18.163.164[85.18.163.164]: 80...
connection timeout
WINSOCK2 init: 0
File not found: '85.18.163.164'
Failed to open mms://85.18.163.164.

Exiting... (End of file)