is there a way to play this stream in GNU/Linux

[Gregory Nowak]

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I've just tried something else. I opened the stream in the other OS,
and ran tcpdump on my server to see what was happening in terms of the
ip address and ports. The interesting thing is that the stream
apparently comes from 66.250.188.214 on tcp port 80, with the
destination address being the windows machine playing the stream with
a destination port of 1079. There is also traffic going from my
windows machine on port 80, to 66.250.188.214 port 1079. 

Going to 66.250.188.214 port 1079, doesn't give me anything, it looks
like they have it firewalled off. However, pointing links/lynx to
http://66.250.188.214 gives me the following message: video/x-ms-asf
D)ownload, or C)ancel.

Naturally, I downloaded the file, however mplayer doesn't like the
file.

mplayer: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: no version information available
(required by mplayer)
MPlayer 1.0pre4-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Pentium III Katmai/Pentium III Xeon Tanner 601.6 MHz
(Family: 6, Stepping: 3)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 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 /home/greg/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/greg/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/home/greg/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 66 audio & 176 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/greg/.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/greg/.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

Playing test.media.
Cache fill:  0.01% (46 bytes)

Exiting... (End of file)

I named the file test.media, since in the save box in lynx, the file
name is the ip address, so it looks like the file extention wouldn't
matter. The file is actually a text file, and reads:

[Reference]
Ref1=http://192.168.100.122:80/

As you can see, the URL in that file is an internal class C IP
address. So the idea is that IE downloads the file, which in turn
somehow directs it to play the stream from the internal address. I
can't think of a way to duplicate this, since there would be no
difference as far as I can see between having the browser pass the
file to mplayer, and me passing the already saved file to mplayer from
the shell.

I couldn't agree with you more, these ever increasing embedded players
are very annoying.

Greg


On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 03:12:47PM -0700, David Csercsics wrote:
> Nope that won't work. I tried it with the talking mozilla which is
> perfectly capable at reading javascript pages. No attempt at all was
> made to play the stream. So the only way you'll get this to work is
> if you download the javascript source and try to figure out what URL
> it's actually streaming the data from. Too many websites ar using
> these stupid embedded players to stream audio! It's getting to be
> more annoying all the time. I don't know  why they don't have enough
> intelligence to just give you a link directly to the stream!
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