Stream fails with MPlayer 1.0-pre7

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Justin,

Thanks for that insight. The trick worked for me too.

Chuck


On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Justin Ekis wrote:

> Real audio streams are strange sometimes. If you get a stream address that 
> starts with pnm and it doesn't work, try it with rtsp instead. Same applies 
> in the reverse, if rtsp fails try pnm. If neither works try http as a last 
> resort though that hardly ever works. Accessing the stream you listed over 
> rtsp plays fine.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Justin
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:25:18PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
>> This stream plays properly with a player that uses the Realplayer version 
>> 8.0 libraries:
>
>> pnm://audio1.wksu.org:7070/encoder/wksu.rm
>
>> But when Mplayer 1.0-pre7 attempts it, here is what I get:
>
>> Connected to server: audio1.wksu.org
>> Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    input_pnm: got message from server while 
>> reading stream:
>> You need to obtain a new player to play this clip. Please point your web 
>> browser to http://www.real.com and download the latest RealOne Player from 
>> RealNetworks. Once you have installed it you should try this clip again.
>> Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
>
>
>> I gather the stream knows who is trying to access it and objects to 
>> non-Realplayer clients. If so, that sucks.
>
>> Chuck
>
>
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