"tony" <tony@tntpro.com> writes:
The stream does work in windows media player... perhaps there is some way to select stream 2 or something along those lines?
I tried calling mplayer on <URL:mms://stream.dispatchbroadcast.com/Pens/Pens021102.wma>. The results were similar, appended below. Thanks for confirming that it works in Windows media player. I wasn't altogether sure, and I don't have the means to check. jesse@phiwumbda:~$ mplayer mms://stream.dispatchbroadcast.com/Pens/Pens021102.wma 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 /home/jesse/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/jesse/.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: /home/jesse/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startupscripts. Using usleep() timing Can't open input config file /home/jesse/.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 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 40 KBytes Connected to server: stream.dispatchbroadcast.com Cache fill: 5.31% (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
-----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
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