[MPlayer-users] Mplayer and Real Audio stream

[Álvaro G. Martínez]

Hi guys,

I  normally use mplayer to listen (and save) real audio streams, that way I 
can download a few files and listen them when I want to.

One stream in particular, is not working anymore since a few weeks ago. I can 
listen it with Real Player, but mplayer keeps saying "connection timeout" 
when it tries to connect to the server.

Is there any option I can try to get this stream working again?

The server is ms.espectador.com, and here is an address that works with Real 
Audio and doesn't work with mplayer:

rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0703261.rm

mplayer tries to connect to port 554 and gets a timeout, later it tries 7070 
and gets a timeout too. Finally it tries on 80 and gets a 404 HTTP Error.

Trying with Real Player takes like 20 seconds, so maybe the server is slow. 
But mplayer timeouts after almost 1 minute, so I don't think that's the 
problem

Anyway, executing

mplayer rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0703261.rm -v >> log 
2>> log

gives me this output ( I cut some parts that I think are not relevant)


MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (Family: 15, Model: 47, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2
...
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
...
Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
Using nanosleep() timing
get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/alvaro/.mplayer/input.conf'
Parsing input config file /home/alvaro/.mplayer/input.conf
Input config file /home/alvaro/.mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds
get_path('dol0703261.rm.conf') -> '/home/alvaro/.mplayer/dol0703261.rm.conf'

Playing rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0703261.rm.
get_path('sub/') -> '/home/alvaro/.mplayer/sub/'
STREAM_RTSP, URL: rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0703261.rm
Filename for url is now 
rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0703261.rm
Filename for url is now 
rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0703261.rm
Resolving ms.espectador.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: ms.espectador.com
Resolving ms.espectador.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server ms.espectador.com[74.53.205.114]: 554...
connection timeout <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Resolving ms.espectador.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: ms.espectador.com
Resolving ms.espectador.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server ms.espectador.com[74.53.205.114]: 7070...
connection timeout <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Filename for url is now 
rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0703261.rm
Filename for url is now 
rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0703261.rm
STREAM_HTTP(2), URL: 
rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0703261.rm
Resolving ms.espectador.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: ms.espectador.com
Resolving ms.espectador.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server ms.espectador.com[74.53.205.114]: 80...
--- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- START ---
protocol:           [HTTP/1.1]
http minor version: [1]
uri:                [(null)]
method:             [(null)]
status code:        [404]
reason phrase:      [Not Found]
body size:          [231]
Fields:
 0 - Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:46:22 GMT
 1 - Server: Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) PHP/5.2.4
 2 - Content-Length: 231
 3 - Connection: close
 4 - Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
--- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- END ---
Server returned 404: Not Found
File not found: 'ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0703261.rm'
Failed to open rtsp://ms.espectador.com/audio/app_metafiles/dol0703261.rm.

Exiting... (End of file)



Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

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Álvaro G. Martínez
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