[MPlayer-users] Unable to play shoutcast radio

[andrew]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 12:16:45AM +0200, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Friday 07 March 2008 23:41, andrew wrote:
> 
> > and then mplayer just sits there. I am obviously missing something
> > but neither mplayer man pages / docs or Google were helpful.
> 
> Try put quotes around the url, mplayer -playlist "http://etc..."

This appears to resolve the issue, thanks for that! Mind you I
downloaded the actual file:

$ wget http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=2541&file=filename.pls

and I could then see the 'Version 2' that mplayer was objecting to:

[playlist]
numberofentries=5
File1=http://72.13.81.178:8045
Title1=(#1 - 647/1000) 1.FM - Otto's Baroque Musick
Length1=-1
File2=http://38.99.68.236:8045
Title2=(#2 - 331/500) 1.FM - Otto's Baroque Musick
Length2=-1
File3=http://64.62.194.11:8045
Title3=(#3 - 228/300) 1.FM - Otto's Baroque Musick
Length3=-1
File4=http://38.99.107.34:8045
Title4=(#4 - 40/50) 1.FM - Otto's Baroque Musick
Length4=-1
File5=http://66.220.3.52:8045
Title5=(#5 - 698/700) 1.FM - Otto's Baroque Musick
Length5=-1
Version=2

Which does not seem to be present in all such broadcast playlists.
Anyway thanks for your help.

          Andrew

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