I'm getting no video with this stream with MPlayer. MEncoder crashes with a segfault while trying to convert it: mplayer -v -cache 512 "rtsp://rx-wes-sea34.rbn.com/farm/*/encoder/windup/windup/g2demand/evanescence/clips/myLastBreath.rm" Here's the output of the command above: ====[ cut here ] ==== MPlayer 1.0pre2-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon Thunderbird 1212 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 4) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 61 audio & 157 video codecs CommandLine: '-v' '-cache' '512' 'rtsp://rx-wes-sea34.rbn.com/farm/*/encoder/windup/windup/g2demand/evanescence/clips/myLastBreath.rm' get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/root/.mplayer/font/font.desc' font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc init_freetype Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz). get_path('input.conf') -> '/root/.mplayer/input.conf' Parsing input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 52 binds Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory Setting up LIRC support... get_path('myLastBreath.rm.conf') -> '/root/.mplayer/myLastBreath.rm.conf' Playing rtsp://rx-wes-sea34.rbn.com/farm/*/encoder/windup/windup/g2demand/evanescence/clips/myLastBreath.rm Resolving rx-wes-sea34.rbn.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server rx-wes-sea34.rbn.com[66.203.121.49]:554 ... Cache size set to 512 KBytes Connected to server: rx-wes-sea34.rbn.com CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0 pre:0 eof:0 Cache fill: 18,75% (98304 bytes) Checking for REAL REAL file format detected. real: File version: 0 Chunk: PROP (504f5250) (size: 0x32, offset: 0x12) First index chunk offset: 0x0 First data chunk offset: 0x153 Flags (2): [perfect play (more buffers)] Chunk: CONT (544e4f43) (size: 0x40, offset: 0x44) Chunk: MDPR (5250444d) (size: 0xc5, offset: 0x84) Found new stream (id: 0) skip_str: 45 bytes skipped skip_str: 20 bytes skipped ==> Found audio stream: 0 Found audio stream! version: 5 frame_size: 834 sub_packet_size: 278 samplerate: 44100, channels: 2 ======= WAVE Format ======= Format Tag: 28515 (0x6F63) Channels: 2 Samplerate: 44100 avg byte/sec: 96695 Block align: 834 bits/sample: 16 cbSize: 18 Unknown extra header dump: [16] [1] [1e] [0] [d] [0] [42] [3] [8] [0] [1] [0] [0] [2] [8] [0] [0] [2f] =========================== ### skipping 0 bytes of codec info Chunk: DATA (41544144) (size: 0xd45e6, offset: 0x149) Packets in file: 1043 Auto-selected RM audio ID = 0 Clip info: name: My Last Breath author: Evanescence copyright: ©2003 Wind-up Records ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening shared obj '/usr/lib/real/cook.so.6.0' Audio codec: [13] 96 Kbps Stereo Music Audio bitrate: 95,780 kbit/s (11973 bps) dec_audio: Allocating 25020 bytes for input buffer dec_audio: Allocating 128000 + 65536 = 193536 bytes for output buffer AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 11973->176400 (95,8 kbit) Selected audio codec: [racook] afm:realaud (RealAudio COOK) ========================================================================== Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit... [libaf] Adding filter dummy [dummy] Was reinitialized, rate=44100Hz, nch = 2, format = 0x00000001 and bps = 2 AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 44100 hz, little endian signed int AF_pre: 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) ao2: 44100 Hz 2 chans Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) audio_setup: using '/dev/dsp' dsp device audio_setup: sample format: Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (requested: Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)) audio_setup: using 2 channels (requested: 2) audio_setup: using 44100 Hz samplerate (requested: 44100) audio_setup: frags: 128/128 (1024 bytes/frag) free: 131072 AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps) AO: Description: OSS/ioctl audio output AO: Author: A'rpi Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit... [dummy] Was reinitialized, rate=44100Hz, nch = 2, format = 0x00000001 and bps = 2 [dummy] Was reinitialized, rate=44100Hz, nch = 2, format = 0x00000001 and bps = 2 Video: no video Freeing 0 unused video chunks Starting playback... <normal playback messages...> [libaf] Removing filter dummy uninit audio: realaud DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x8664d00 DEMUXER: freeing sh_audio at 0x8664678 vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited.. ====[ cut here ] ==== And the following command: mencoder -v "rtsp://rx-wes-sea34.rbn.com/farm/*/encoder/windup/windup/g2demand/evanescence/clips/myLastBreath.rm" -oac pcm -ovc xvid -o /root/my_last_breath.avi produces the following output: ====[ cut here ] ==== MEncoder 1.0pre2-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon Thunderbird 1212 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 4) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 61 audio & 157 video codecs Reading config file /root/.mplayer/mencoderinit_freetype Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay Resolving rx-wes-sea34.rbn.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server rx-wes-sea34.rbn.com[66.203.121.49]:554 ... Cache size set to 640 KBytes Connected to server: rx-wes-sea34.rbn.com success: format: 11 data: 0x0 - 0x0 CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0 pre:0 eof:0 Checking for REAL REAL file format detected. real: File version: 0 Chunk: PROP (504f5250) (size: 0x32, offset: 0x12) First index chunk offset: 0x0 First data chunk offset: 0x153 Flags (2): [perfect play (more buffers)] Chunk: CONT (544e4f43) (size: 0x40, offset: 0x44) Chunk: MDPR (5250444d) (size: 0xc5, offset: 0x84) Found new stream (id: 0) skip_str: 45 bytes skipped skip_str: 20 bytes skipped ==> Found audio stream: 0 Found audio stream! version: 5 frame_size: 834 sub_packet_size: 278 samplerate: 44100, channels: 2 ======= WAVE Format ======= Format Tag: 28515 (0x6F63) Channels: 2 Samplerate: 44100 avg byte/sec: 96695 Block align: 834 bits/sample: 16 cbSize: 18 Unknown extra header dump: [16] [1] [1e] [0] [d] [0] [42] [3] [8] [0] [1] [0] [0] [2] [8] [0] [0] [2f] =========================== ### skipping 0 bytes of codec info Chunk: DATA (41544144) (size: 0xd45e6, offset: 0x149) Packets in file: 1043 Auto-selected RM audio ID = 0 Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory File not found: 'frameno.avi' Failed to open frameno.avi : No such file or directory Failed to create AF_INET6 socket: Segmentation fault (core dumped) ====[ cut here ] ==== ... and a nice core file. Loading the core-file in gdb gives me the following for mencoder: #0 0x08166e5b in video_read_properties () I'm using the versions mentioned in the outputs above, plus the latest win32codecs + rp9 + qt6 packages. I even redownloaded them yesterday to make sure they're the latest. Thanks for your attention. -- Erico Mendonca