[MPlayer-users] problem accessing network wmv files

[Cuneyt Taskiran]

Hi,

For a project, I have to save a few streaming video files from
cnn.comlocally. An example of an URL is
http://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/cnn/world/2007/01/01/todd.saddam.execution.cnn.ws.wmv

I have installed mplayer on an Unbuntu system (Edgy Eft) and installed the
windows codecs. However, when I try to play the file from the above location
I get multiple errors (see output below), one specifies that the "chunk
size" is too small and the other says that I am missing the acelp audio
codec family, although I have a file called acelpdec.ax in /usr/lib/win32.
Do I have to recompile mplayer? The information given in
DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html was not very helpful.

Any help would be *greatly* appreciated.

Thanks

Cuneyt


cuneyt at alamogordo:~/cnn$ mplayer
http://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/cnn/world/2007/01/01/todd.saddam.execution.cnn.ws.wmv
MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Model:
8, Stepping: 10)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Playing
http://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/cnn/world/2007/01/01/todd.saddam.execution.cnn.ws.wmv
.
Resolving wmscnn.stream.aol.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: wmscnn.stream.aol.com
Resolving wmscnn.stream.aol.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wmscnn.stream.aol.com[64.236.99.4]: 80...
STREAM_ASF, URL:
http://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/cnn/world/2007/01/01/todd.saddam.execution.cnn.ws.wmv
Resolving wmscnn.stream.aol.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: wmscnn.stream.aol.com
Resolving wmscnn.stream.aol.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wmscnn.stream.aol.com[64.236.98.4]: 80...
Resolving wmscnn.stream.aol.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: wmscnn.stream.aol.com
Resolving wmscnn.stream.aol.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wmscnn.stream.aol.com[64.236.37.12]: 80...
Cache size set to 64 KBytes
Cache fill: 12.50% (8192 bytes)   Ahhhh, stream_chunck size is too small: 4
Error while parsing chunk header
Cache fill: 14.93% (9783 bytes)
ASF file format detected.
Clip info:
 name:
 author:
 copyright:
 comments:
==========================================================================
Requested audio codec family [acelp] (afm=dshow) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x130.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
Audio: no sound
Video: no video


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