[MPlayer-users] CBC & .asx streams

[Graham Wilson]

I'm having a tough time listening to the current CBC streams and I was wondering if anyone else is having issues.

The feeds are given here:

  http://www.cbc.ca/listen/streams.html

Pointing mplayer to the first feed (Calgary):

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mplayer -ao pcm:file=/data/tmp/Test_2007-07-18_1140.wav -playlist http://origin.www.cbc.ca/mrl2/livemedia/cbcr1-calgary.asx

MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 5)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
Resolving origin.www.cbc.ca for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: origin.www.cbc.ca
Resolving origin.www.cbc.ca for AF_INET...
Connecting to server origin.www.cbc.ca[159.33.3.85]: 80...
STREAM_ASF, URL: http://origin.www.cbc.ca/mrl2/livemedia/cbcr1-calgary.asx
Resolving origin.www.cbc.ca for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: origin.www.cbc.ca
Resolving origin.www.cbc.ca for AF_INET...
Connecting to server origin.www.cbc.ca[159.33.3.85]: 80...
read: Resource temporarily unavailable
Failed, exiting.
Resolving origin.www.cbc.ca for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: origin.www.cbc.ca
Resolving origin.www.cbc.ca for AF_INET...
Connecting to server origin.www.cbc.ca[159.33.3.85]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes

Playing http://mfile2.akamai.com/9617/live/reflector:36811.asx?bkup=36812.
Resolving mfile2.akamai.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: mfile2.akamai.com
Resolving mfile2.akamai.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server mfile2.akamai.com[207.61.136.32]: 80...
STREAM_ASF, URL: http://mfile2.akamai.com/9617/live/reflector:36811.asx?bkup=36812
Resolving mfile2.akamai.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: mfile2.akamai.com
Resolving mfile2.akamai.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server mfile2.akamai.com[207.61.136.24]: 80...
size_confirm mismatch!: 22611 20047
Error while parsing chunk header
Failed, exiting.
Resolving mfile2.akamai.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: mfile2.akamai.com
Resolving mfile2.akamai.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server mfile2.akamai.com[207.61.136.32]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill:  0.08% (272 bytes)   


Exiting... (End of file)
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If I grab the .asx URL with curl/wget, I find the entry is a link to another asx.

<ASX VERSION="3.0">
 <ENTRY>
  <REF HREF="http://mfile2.akamai.com/9617/live/reflector:36811.asx?bkup=36812" />
 </ENTRY>
</ASX>

If I grab this asx file, it reads:

<ASX VERSION="3.0">
 <ENTRY>
  <REF HREF="mms://a812.l961736811.c9617.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/812/9617/v0001/reflector:36811" />
 </ENTRY>
<ENTRY>
  <REF HREF="mms://a813.l961736812.c9617.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/813/9617/v0001/reflector:36812" />
 </ENTRY>
</ASX>

I can get mplayer to process this last file either by using '-playlist http://mfile2.akamai.com/9617/live/reflector:36811.asx?bkup=36812' or by grabbing one of the mms streams directly.  That is to say that both of these work:

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mplayer -ao pcm:file=/data/tmp/Test_2007-07-18_1140.wav -playlist http://mfile2.akamai.com/9617/live/reflector:36811.asx?bkup=36812

mplayer -ao pcm:file=/data/tmp/Test_2007-07-18_1140.wav mms://a812.l961736811.c9617.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/812/9617/v0001/reflector:36811
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The trouble is that the URL of these secondary asx links (and the mms URLs) change periodically and I must constantly update my listening/recording scripts.  I'd really like to use the top-level asx link.

Any ideas?
Graham


       
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