[MPlayer-users] Playing videos from tv.freebox.fr

[Nicolas George]

Hi.

The French ISP Proxad (aka Free) allows its customers to watch the TV from
HTTP streams, for example <URL: http://tv.freebox.fr/stream_france2 >. The
web page it is embedded in uses a plugin with type
"application/x-vlc-plugin", so these streams are supposed to be playable
with free software.

Unfortunately, mplayer is not able to play them: the video is just fine, but
the sound does not work at all, and even sometimes crashes mplayer. ffplay
plays just the video, and ignores the sound completely.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

I put a sample file there:
http://www.normalesup.org/~george/tmp/stream_france2.ts

The error I get are:

Playing /tmp/stream_france2.ts.
TS file format detected.
VIDEO H264(pid=68) AUDIO AAC(pid=69) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 1
<snip>
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
versionA not supported
versionA not supported
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
FAAD: error: Maximum number of scalefactor bands exceeded, trying to resync!
FAAD: error: Channel coupling not yet implemented, trying to resync!
FAAD: error: Invalid number of channels, trying to resync!
FAAD: error: Invalid number of channels, trying to resync!
FAAD: error: Gain control not yet implemented, trying to resync!
FAAD: error: Maximum number of scalefactor bands exceeded, trying to resync!
FAAD: error: Quantised value out of range, trying to resync!
FAAD: error: Channel coupling not yet implemented, trying to resync!
FAAD: error: Unexpected channel configuration change, trying to resync!
FAAD: error: Unexpected channel configuration change, trying to resync!
FAAD: Failed to decode frame: Unexpected channel configuration change 
FAAD: error: Unexpected channel configuration change, trying to resync!
FAAD: error: Unexpected channel configuration change, trying to resync!
FAAD: error: Channel coupling not yet implemented, trying to resync!
FAAD: error: Gain control not yet implemented, trying to resync!
FAAD: error: Invalid number of channels, trying to resync!

With -ac ffaac:

Forced audio codec: ffaac
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
Could not open codec.
ADecoder init failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x4134504D.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George