The stream does work in windows media player... perhaps there is some way to select stream 2 or something along those lines? -----Original Message----- From: mplayer-users-admin@mplayerhq.hu [mailto:mplayer-users-admin@mplayerhq.hu]On Behalf Of Jesse F. Hughes Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 4:24 PM To: mplayer user list Subject: [MPlayer-users] Windows Streaming Media ain't streaming. [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] Hey ho. I'm completely new to mplayer. I downloaded it so that I might listen to a Pens hockey game from overseas (why won't the NHL use RealPlayer?). However, so far, no luck. I have the win32 codecs installed, but when I try to listen to a game, I hear the little blurb announcing who's streaming the media, and then nothing. Below is the output from mplayer. I'm sitting behind a firewall, but I don't think that's the problem. I don't see any dropped packets in my logs, but perhaps they're being dropped without logging. In any case, I tried opening up ports 1755 and 80, just in case, but there was no change. I was able to listen to www.vcyamerica.org. They're also serving a .asx file, but they had a snippet explaining how Linux users can listen, which I spotted via Google. Sadly, they are a purely Christian radio station, which is somehow not the substitute for Ice Hockey. I thought I'd try my luck in the home of evil streaming media, MSNBC, but everything there is done via javascript and so I can't find the URL to put on the command line for mplayer. Agh. Anyway, any help would be appreciated. Please let me know what details I have omitted. As I said, I'm new to this program. root@phiwumbda:/usr/src/MPlayer-0.90pre9# mplayer http://streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com/Pensgame021102.asx Using GNU internationalization Original domain: messages Original dirname: /usr/share/locale Current domain: mplayer Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale MPlayer 0.90pre9-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS) CPU: Intel Celeron A Mendocino/Pentium II Dixon (Family: 6, Stepping: 5) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 110 video codecs font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz) Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config Playing http://streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com/Pensgame021102.asx Resolving streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com ... Connecting to server streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com[198.242.35.42]:80 ... Resolving streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com ... Connecting to server streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com[198.242.35.42]:80 ... Connected to server: streamdata.dispatchbroadcast.com Playing mms://stream.dispatchbroadcast.com/RSN/Stinger2.wma Resolving stream.dispatchbroadcast.com ... Connecting to server stream.dispatchbroadcast.com[199.218.4.66]:80 ... Stream bitrate properties object Max bandwidth set to 0 Resolving stream.dispatchbroadcast.com ... Connecting to server stream.dispatchbroadcast.com[199.218.4.66]:80 ... Cache size set to 35 KBytes Connected to server: stream.dispatchbroadcast.com Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Detected ASF file format! ============ ASF Stream group == START === object size = 32 stream count=[0x1][1] stream id=[0x1][1] max bitrate=[0x575c][22364] ============ ASF Stream group == END === Clip info: name: Radio Sound Network author: Streaming Provided By: copyright: comments: ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [acm] Win32/ACM decoders Loading codec DLL: 'divxa32.acm' Loaded DLL driver divxa32.acm AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 2751->88200 (22.0 kbit) Selected audio codec: [divx] afm:acm (DivX audio (WMA)) ========================================================================== AO: [oss] 22050Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) Building audio filter chain for 22050Hz/2ch/16bit -> 22050Hz/2ch/16bit... Video: no video!!! Start playing... A: 4.1 40.5% 0% Total Unfree 4096 bytes cnt 1 [(nil),0] Playing mms://stream.dispatchbroadcast.com/Pens/Pens021102.wma Resolving stream.dispatchbroadcast.com ... Connecting to server stream.dispatchbroadcast.com[199.218.4.66]:80 ... Stream bitrate properties object Max bandwidth set to 0 Resolving stream.dispatchbroadcast.com ... Connecting to server stream.dispatchbroadcast.com[199.218.4.66]:80 ... Cache size set to 35 KBytes Connected to server: stream.dispatchbroadcast.com Cache fill: 6.24% (2174 bytes) Detected ASF file format! ============ ASF Stream group == START === object size = 32 stream count=[0x1][1] stream id=[0x1][1] max bitrate=[0x5724][22308] ============ ASF Stream group == END === ASF: No Audio stream found... -> no sound No stream found Exiting... (End of file) -- "[R]eality has a fascinating ability to check us when we get a little too big for our britches... Make no mistake. 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