[MPlayer-users] Re: RTSP audio doesn't work

[Paulus Esterhazy]

Paulus Esterhazy schrieb:
> Roberto Togni schrieb:
>> There are 2 problems in this stream:
>>
>> - there are 3 streams (audio, video and a short text), but MPlayer can
>> only work with two (SETUP is done only for stream id 0 and 1, while
>> subscribe is done for all 3 streams; moreover the rdt code uses only
>> one bit for stream id). this should be fixed in the patch
>>
>> - stream id 2 (the text) is very short, and when it's over it sends an
>> eof rdt message. MPlayer quits on this eof, even if stream 0 and 1 are
>> still playing. the patch attemps to quit only when stream 0 reaches
>> eof, but it's still buggy; the right solution is probably to quit only
>> when all streams got an eof. Also the rdt code was not written to
>> continue reading after the eof packet, and assume a lot of things that
>> are true only for 2 streams with some latency report packets in them
>> (the 9 bytes skipped). I'm rewriting most of the rdt parser, but it
>> will take some time.
>>
>> Attached patch makes it work, but breaks other stuff (eof is still
>> broken, so you have to wait timeout before you get eof).
>>
> 
> Thanks Roberto. The patch works for listening to the stream for me, too. 
> Saving the audio (-dumpaudio) doesn't, however, because the dumped file 
> isn't playable even w/ mplayer. I guess this is related to the other 
> broken stuff. I'm looking forward to seeing the rewritten parser, if you 
> get around to it.
> 
> Thanks again, keep up the great work
> Paulus

Quick follow-up for anyone who's interested (or uses google). To easily 
download and convert the radio shows into mp3player-compatible files I 
use these commands:

mplayer -vo none -playlist 
http://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070121.ram -ao 
pcm:file=LegalEthics.wav

lame LegalEthics.wav LegalEthics.mp3 && rm LegalEthics.wav

This works great with Roberto's patch.

Cheers
Paulus