[MPlayer-users] mplayer multicast start up behavior

[Michael Hawkins]

OK, I tried that with: mplayer udp://239.1.2.3:4567 -loop 0

but still no good.

[mhawkins at liberty ~]$ mplayer udp://239.1.2.3:4567 -loop 0
MPlayer SVN-r38423-13 (C) 2000-2023 MPlayer Team
do_connect: could not connect to socket
connect: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
control.

Playing udp://239.1.2.3:4567.
STREAM_UDP, URL: udp://239.1.2.3:4567
Timeout! No data from host 239.1.2.3
udp_streaming_start failed
No stream found to handle url udp://239.1.2.3:4567


Exiting... (End of file)

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Michael A Hawkins
Stamford, CT 06902 USA
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On Sat, 2023-12-23 at 20:33 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 19 Dec 2023, at 19:42, Michael Hawkins
> > <mhawkins.consultant at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Apologies for the previous thread hijack and top post.
> > 
> > I'm trying to use mplayer to receive multicast audio, I ran into a
> > problem where mplayer won't start unless the multicast is already
> > streaming. ffplay does not have this problem.
> > 
> > See
> > https://superuser.com/questions/307130/ffmpeg-command-to-stream-video-to-a-multicast-address
> > 
> > If you try to start mplayer before the stream is there, it will
> > fail
> > with:
> > 
> > Timeout! No data from host 239.1.2.3
> > udp_streaming_start failed
> > No stream found to handle url udp://239.1.2.3:4567
> > 
> > Is there a way to make mplayer start without the stream already
> > being
> > present?
> 
> Maybe use -loop 0 to make it retry forever?
> 
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