[MPlayer-users] MPlayer can't read radio streams anymore

Tue Jun 17 11:03:01 CEST 2008

On Tuesday, 17 June 2008 at 01:09, Thomas Ruedas wrote:
> Hi,
> here's a weird problem I'm having since last Friday or so, although I 
> didn't change anything in the configuration of MPlayer or other parts of 
> my computer lately. I use to rip radio streams e.g. like this:
> oggenc -q 5 -o outfile.ogg outfile.pipe & mplayer -ao pcm:file=outfile.pipe  
> rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/early_music_show/earlymusic_sun.ra\?BBC-UID=64a875a6ee17676902bd2c7880d096c8914f317e20701114744fd8017f0b6645_n\&SSO2-UID=
> (all in one line of course) or simply
> mplayer rtsp://...
> and that used to work just fine. But now I get the messages shown at the 
> bottom. The strange thing here is the timeouts and the trying through of 
> different ports, which didn't occur previously AFAIR. The timeout time 
> seems to be at its maximum.
> The problem doesn't seem to be a malformed URL, because it occurs not only 
> with BBC stuff, but also with other radio stations, while accessing the 
> same material via RealPlayer works as usual and within a short time 
> interval (i.e. no timeout issues).
> I don't even know where to start looking for the cause. Can anybody please 
> tell me what might be going on and how to solve it?
> Thanks,
> Thomas
> 
> Terminal output:
> Playing 
> rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/early_music_show/earlymusic_sun.ra?BBC-UID=64a875a6ee17676902bd2c7880d096c8914f317e20701114744fd8017f0b6645_n&SSO2-UID=.
> Resolving rmv8.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server rmv8.bbc.net.uk[212.58.251.70]: 554...
> connection timeout
> Resolving rmv8.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server rmv8.bbc.net.uk[212.58.251.70]: 7070...
> connection timeout
> Resolving rmv8.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server rmv8.bbc.net.uk[212.58.251.70]: 80...
> http_read_response read 0 (i.e. EOF).
> No stream found to handle url 
> rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/early_music_show/earlymusic_sun.ra?BBC-UID=64a875a6ee17676902bd2c7880d096c8914f317e20701114744fd8017f0b6645_n&SSO2-UID=

That stream plays fine here (r26936). Please do not trim MPlayer's output
or we can't help.

Regards,
R.

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