[MPlayer-users] Playing a raw PCM audio RTP stream

[Nico Sabbi]

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I'm currently playing a bit with pulseaudio, one of the sound servers.
>You can bind a RTP-sending sink to other sinks and I gave it a try,
>but was unsuccessful to play such a stream with mplayer.
>
>On the pulseaudio mailing list, I was told[1] that this just used to work
>out of the box (mplayer rtp://224.0.0.56:46778), because the stream
>content is put into the type descriptor. However, mplayer tries to
>detect the stream type by content these days:
>
>$ mplayer rtp://224.0.0.56:46778
>
>
>Any chance to force it to just use the type description, or to
>manually force a specific interpretation?
>
>  
>

descriptors are in rtsp:// not in rtp://