[MPlayer-users] Mplayer cannot open MMS stream, plays fine in WMP

[Dotan Cohen]

Using Mplayer Portable on Windows XP Pro SP3, I cannot play a media
file that plays fine in Windows Media Player on the same system. This
is the output:

D:\TEMP\dotan\MPlayerPortable\App\mplayer\mplayer.exe -slave -identify
-wid 2360602 -colorkey 0x101010 -nokeepaspect -framedrop -autosync 100
-vf screenshot -font C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf -priority abovenormal
-ao dsound:device=0 -autoq 10 -vf-add pp
rtsp://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/MaDaRH_Tut/MaDaRH(T)-1.wmv

MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Setting process priority: abovenormal
C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font
description, ignoring.
Cannot load bitmap font: C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.ttf

Playing rtsp://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/MaDaRH_Tut/MaDaRH(T)-1.wmv.
Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET...
Connecting to server video9.technion.ac.il[132.68.1.27]: 554...
STREAM_LIVE555, URL:
rtsp://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/MaDaRH_Tut/MaDaRH(T)-1.wmv
Stream not seekable!
file format detected.


Exiting... (End of file)
Failed to initiate "audio/X-ASF-PF" RTP subsession: RTP payload format
unknown or not supported
Failed to initiate "video/X-ASF-PF" RTP subsession: RTP payload format
unknown or not supported



I seem to remember Mplayer playing these files in the past. Has RTP
support been taken out of Mplayer, or might the Portable Mplayer folks
simply neglected to compile it in? Note that this file cannot be
accessed from outside the university. Thanks.

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Dotan Cohen

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