[MPlayer-users] RTMP streaming seems to be problematic...

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 09:43:21PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 05:46:28PM +0100, Sander Plas wrote:
> > On 12/09/2011 05:08 PM, Tom Evans wrote:
> > >>The following is a console log of a successful RTMP playback start. Between
> > >>the last "avformat_network_init(), this will become mandatory later." and
> > >>"libavformat file format detected" it takes nearly forever before something
> > >>happens.
> > 
> > >You need to supply logs with verbose level:
> > 
> > I do not want to demotivate anybody but as far as i know, RTMP
> > support has never worked reliably in mplayer (or ffmpeg) except for
> > a few test streams that were used by the guy who wrote the code.
> 
> It seems your mistake is that you try to use FFmpeg's native RTMP.
> You should make sure to compile against librtmp, which should be
> working fine.

A way to eliminate any uncertainty about which is used is to use
ffmpeg://rtmpt://
[note: rtmpt, nor rtmp]
since rtmpt is only supported via librtmp.