I am having trouble playing some (but not all) pre-recorded ASF stream on mplayer 0.90. The situation is not consistent because even on a single given site, some files play and others don't. Note that all these files play both under Xine and under Windoze Media Player. I know that mplayer has troubles with some ASF streams, but if the problem is some type of proprietary or encrypted M$ format, how come Xine is able to play them OK? Note I have all the latest win32codecs installed. Specifically, I get the following outpt from running: mplayer -v switch http://www.a7.org/data/songs2003/07/02/matay-madregot.asx ------------------------ MPlayer dev-CVS--3.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel (Family: 8, Stepping: 4) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory Reading config file /home/johndoe/.mplayer/config Reading /home/johndoe/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/johndoe/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Using built-in default codecs.conf CommandLine: '-ao' 'esd' '-v' 'switch' 'http://www.a7.org/data/songs2003/07/02/matay-madregot.asx' get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/johndoe/.mplayer/font/font.desc' font: can't open file: /home/johndoe/.mplayer/font/font.desc Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay 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 startup scripts. Using usleep() timing get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/johndoe/.mplayer/input.conf' Can't open input config file /home/johndoe/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config Can't init input joystick Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such device Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. get_path('matay-madregot.asx.conf') -> '/home/johndoe/.mplayer/matay-madregot.asx.conf' Playing http://www.a7.org/data/songs2003/07/02/matay-madregot.asx Failed to create AF_INET6 socket: Resolving www.a7.org for AF_INET... Connecting to server www.a7.org[198.65.148.152]:80 ... --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- START --- protocol: [HTTP/1.1] http minor version: [1] uri: [(null)] method: [(null)] status code: [200] reason phrase: [OK] body size: [277] Fields: 0 - Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 1 - Cache-Control: max-age=31536000 2 - Expires: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 02:28:25 GMT 3 - Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 02:28:25 GMT 4 - Content-Type: video/x-ms-asf 5 - Accept-Ranges: bytes 6 - Last-Modified: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 14:03:30 GMT 7 - ETag: "86f3b2b7a240c31:c54" 8 - Content-Length: 277 --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- END --- Content-Type: [video/x-ms-asf] Content-Length: [277] Trying ASF/HTTP... Failed to create AF_INET6 socket: Resolving www.a7.org for AF_INET... Connecting to server www.a7.org[198.65.148.152]:80 ... =====> ASF Redirector Connected to server: www.a7.org Parsing playlist http://www.a7.org/data/songs2003/07/02/matay-madregot.asx... Trying asx... Detected asx format Adding file mms://msmedia.a7.org/arutz7/mitzad/matay-madregot.wma to element entry Playlist successfully parsed get_path('matay-madregot.wma.conf') -> '/home/johndoe/.mplayer/matay-madregot.wma.conf' Playing mms://msmedia.a7.org/arutz7/mitzad/matay-madregot.wma Trying ASF/HTTP... Failed to create AF_INET6 socket: Resolving msmedia.a7.org for AF_INET... Connecting to server msmedia.a7.org[198.64.140.205]:80 ... =====> ASF Prerecorded =====> ASF header chunk follows Failed to create AF_INET6 socket: Stream bitrate properties object Max bandwidth set to 0 Resolving msmedia.a7.org for AF_INET... Connecting to server msmedia.a7.org[198.64.140.205]:80 ... =====> ASF Prerecorded Cache size set to 120 KBytes Connected to server: msmedia.a7.org CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0 pre:0 eof:0 Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) =====> ASF header chunk follows Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) ... ... ... Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Cache fill: 1.96% (2403 bytes) ASF file format detected. ASF: packets: 698 flags: 2 max_packet_size: 5976 min_packet_size: 5976 max_bitrate: 128623 preroll: 1579 stream type: guid_audio_stream stream concealment: guid_audio_conceal_interleave type: 28 bytes, stream: 8 bytes ID: 1 unk1: 0 unk2: 199FBFC FILEPOS=0x87B ==> Found audio stream: 1 ======= WAVE Format ======= Format Tag: 353 (0x161) Channels: 2 Samplerate: 44100 avg byte/sec: 16000 Block align: 5945 bits/sample: 16 cbSize: 10 Unknown extra header dump: [0] [88] [0] [0] [f] [0] [e5] [5c] [0] [0] =========================== ASF: audio scrambling: 1 x 1 x 5945 ============ ASF Stream group == START === object size = 32 stream count=[0x1][1] stream id=[0x1][1] max bitrate=[0x1f66f][128623] ============ ASF Stream group == END === Title: Author: Found movie at 0x963 - 0x3FAF53 ASF: 1 audio and 0 video streams found ASF: Searching for audio stream (id:-1). ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: audio) ASF: No audio stream found -> no sound. No stream found. DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x862e228 DEMUXER: freeing sh_audio at 0x86301f0 vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited.. Exiting... (End of file) ---------------------------------------------------- - Any ideas on what might be going wrong here? Thanks!