[MPlayer-users] rtp streaming broken?

[Nico Sabbi]

On Thursday 29 January 2009 12:09:36 Adam Nielsen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just tried to play a DVB stream sent over a LAN courtesy of
> dvbstream, and although the stream arrives on my PC (as shown by
> tcpdump) mplayer is now displaying this error:
>
> $ mplayer rtp://224.0.1.2:5004
> MPlayer dev-SVN-r28288-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q6600  @ 2.40GHz (Family: 6,
> Model: 15, Stepping: 11)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your
> remote control.
>
> Playing rtp://224.0.1.2:5004.
> STREAM_RTP, URL: rtp://224.0.1.2:5004
> Timeout! No data from host 224.0.1.2
> rtp_streaming_start failed
> No stream found to handle url rtp://224.0.1.2:5004
>
>
> Exiting... (End of file)
>
> Last time I tried this on a previous mplayer version it worked
> fine.  Has the syntax for streaming over RTP changed?
>

just for curiosity: does udp:// work or is it locally broken, too?