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Well, RealPlayer for sure does work for me for the file from 1998, so
it must be there.<br>
In any case, this very command works flawlessly for me:<br>
realplay pnm://ravi.br-online.de/ravi/alpha/centauri/v/980927.rm<br>
<br>
But it seems like this file can't be accessed with rtsp, but only with
pnm, which is what doesn't work with mplayer.<br>
The newer files (like the one you linked below) can be accessed with
both rtsp and pnm, so one can play them through rtsp, which seems to
work with mplayer.<br>
<br>
<i>So the central question is, does mplayer work with pnm at all? And
if yes, what's that error I posted below?</i><br>
<br>
Until the problem is solved, I'm going to try with xine-ui in the
meantime. What I'd like to do is to save those files on my hard drive,
(mplayer -dumpstream), but I heard that xine-ui won't do that if the
stream forbids it (which shows the difference in the philosophy behind
mplayer and xine... which in turn is a reason to prefer mplayer, in my
opinion; I just hate it when programs try to control me, instead of me
controlling them... which is one of the many reasons for me using Linux
and not Windows).<br>
<br>
Awaiting your answers eagerly ;-)<br>
<br>
Malte<br>
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<pre wrap="">I couldn't get that link to work on MPlayer or RealPlayer. RealPlayer said that it could not find that file (it is from 1998). I was able to get MPlayer to play the first file in the list from 2004...I have RealPlayer codecs installed. Also, there are 2 addresses in the link: a pnm address which didn't work and the one that did is:
mplayer rtsp://ravi.br-online.de:5050/ravi/alpha/centauri/v/041222.rm
Marty
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:56:45 +0100
Malte Horst Arthur Skoruppa <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:malte@countnumber.de"><malte@countnumber.de></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi!
I'm having problems getting realmedia streaming to work with mplayer.
The URI I'm trying to play is:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.br-online.de/cgi-bin/ravi?v=alpha/centauri/v/&f=980927.rm">http://www.br-online.de/cgi-bin/ravi?v=alpha/centauri/v/&f=980927.rm</a>
(linked from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.br-online.de/alpha/centauri/archiv.shtml">http://www.br-online.de/alpha/centauri/archiv.shtml</a>)
Now, when I save this via the browser, I get a file called ravi.html
containg this line:
pnm://ravi.br-online.de/ravi/alpha/centauri/v/980927.rm
When I try to play this with mplayer, I get the following:
malte@fuchur ~> mplayer
pnm://ravi.br-online.de/ravi/alpha/centauri/v/980927.rm
MPlayer 1.0pre5try2-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton 1838 MHz (Family:
6, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
MMX2 supported but disabled
3DNowExt supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX 3DNow SSE
Reading config file /usr/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/malte/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/malte/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/home/malte/.mplayer/codecs.conf': Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/malte/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/malte/.mplayer/input.conf: Datei oder
Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Input config file /usr/share/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds
Playing pnm://ravi.br-online.de/ravi/alpha/centauri/v/980927.rm.
Resolving ravi.br-online.de for AF_INET...
Connecting to server ravi.br-online.de[195.37.215.74]:7070 ...
PNM:// fd=5
Cache size set to 8192 KBytes
Connected to server: ravi.br-online.de
Cache fill: 0,00% (0 bytes) input_pnm: got message from server while
reading stream:
You need to obtain a new player to play this clip. Please point your web
browser to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.real.com">http://www.real.com</a> and download the latest RealPlayer from
RealNetworks. Once you have installed it you should try this clip again.
input_pnm: read error.
input_pnm: read error.
input_pnm: read error.
input_pnm: read error.
... and this goes on in stdout ...
... much more rarely, messages are printed to stderr ...
demux_real: invalid chunksize! (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)
...
Too many audio packets in the buffer: (408 in 8391474 bytes).
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
...
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (0)
bad packet len (1)
Note that the very same stream does work well with RealPlayer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated :-)
Thanks,
Malte
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