[MPlayer-users] Unable to play shoutcast radio

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 08:41:52AM +1100, andrew wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am unable to play shoutcast radio streams with the svn mplayer. A
> typical example:
> 
> andrew at ilium~$ mplayer -playlist
> http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=2541&file=filename.pls[1]
> 21662
> andrew at ilium~$ MPlayer dev-SVN-r26196-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2,
> Stepping: 9)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
> Resolving www.shoutcast.com for AF_INET6...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.shoutcast.com
> Resolving www.shoutcast.com for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server www.shoutcast.com[207.200.98.25]: 80...
> Cache size set to 320 KBytes
> Unknown entry type Version=2
> 
> and then mplayer just sits there. I am obviously missing something but
> neither mplayer man pages / docs or Google were helpful.

Works just fine here... No output at all after this? Maybe a firewall
that blocks port 8045?