[MPlayer-users] Trouble with RTSP stream; works with Quicktime and VLC

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Hi Aaron!

Aaron Greenhouse <aarong <at> cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> I'm having trouble getting MPlayer to open a stream via RTSP.  The  
> stream is hosted by an AXIS camera on the LAN.  It is MPEG-4 video  
> with AAC audio.

Could you _PLEASE_ find out if your camera also supports G726 audio format? I'd
really like to support it, but never found a camera to test.

>  It's url on the LAN is rtsp://192.168.23.200/mpeg4/1/ 
> media.amp.  When I give this URL to Quicktime or VLC, the stream is  
> opened and plays correctly.  If I give it to MPlayer, the following  
> happens:
> 
> <begin quote>
> [aaron-greenhouses-imac:~] aaron% mplayer http://192.168.23.200/ 
> mpeg4/1/media.amp
> MPlayer dev-SVN-r21482-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7400  @ 2.16GHz (Family: 6,  
> Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
> 
> Playing http://192.168.23.200/mpeg4/1/media.amp.

AAC over RTSP is supposed to work correctly with mplayer with live555.
It is possible that you did not compile mplayer with live555 support. Without
live555, it is not possible to receive this stream with the native demuxer that
is tried in your output.
If you have live555 installed, it should be autodetected by configure, there
should be no need for additional configure options.

Please report, Carl Eugen