Mplayer and Win media.

Mplayer and Win media.

[Toby Fisher]

Well ok, so I lied, I can get streams to play, and in fact there are some
streams that play perfectly, but most of them seem to cause mplayer to
crash.  They start playing for about a second, then pause for about 2
seconds as if there's lag or network congestion, then play for about 3
seconds and then mplayer simply hangs.  It's weird, it happens with asf
and asx streams, not sure why this should be, especially since a small
proportion play without a hitch.

Any suggestions?  Is it something to do with the streams themselves?

Cheers.

p.s. Even the BBC has started using them now, though there's plays
perfectly.


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Re: Mplayer and Win media.

[Christopher Moore]

Toby,
Could you send along some links for me to test.  I installed mplayer but
the one link I found didn't work.  

Thanks
Chris
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Re: Mplayer and Win media.

[Toby Fisher]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Christopher Moore wrote:

> Toby,
> Could you send along some links for me to test.  I installed mplayer but
> the one link I found didn't work.

Ok Chris, I'm sending 3:

This one works:

http://STREAM.SERVSTREAM.COM/ViewWeb/BBCRadio_music/Event/1Xtra56k.asx

and this is an example of one that fails in the way I described in my last
message:

http://audio.musicradio.com/BroadlandFM.asx

This one doesn't even start to get played:

http://streaming.capitalinteractive.co.uk/brmb_low

Cheers.

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Re: Mplayer and Win media.

[Johan Bergström]

Toby Fisher <toby_fisher@bigfoot.com> writes:

> This one works:
> 
> http://STREAM.SERVSTREAM.COM/ViewWeb/BBCRadio_music/Event/1Xtra56k.asx

This one started playing as it looked in mplayer but I didnt hear
anything.. maybe they didnt stream anything for the 30 seconds I tried.
 
> and this is an example of one that fails in the way I described in my last
> message:
> 
> http://audio.musicradio.com/BroadlandFM.asx

Works perfectly fine for me.
 
> This one doesn't even start to get played:
> 
> http://streaming.capitalinteractive.co.uk/brmb_low

This one to, I'm actually listening to it atm, great music. :-)
 
I can only suggest that you upgrade mplayer and install all the windows codecs
again. And remember to install new config files in your ~/.mplayer dir. They
make the old ones obsolete with every release.

Johbe

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Re: Mplayer and Win media.

[Johan Bergström]

Forgot to mention that the streams hang after about 2 seconds as you described
earlier and then start playing again. I bet it has something with the caching
of streamed data to do. Altho after the first little break everything goes on
playing just fine. mplayer never hangs for me, it continues to play.

Johbe

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Re: Mplayer and Win media.

[Igor Gueths]

Hi there Toby. It seems that some client header information is possibly
being sent to every server except the bbc server, which was the url which
you labeled as working. I got no packet dumps of header information as of
yet, however this seems like the most logical thing that would be
occuring. Since I have alsa5 here, I tried both oss and alsa5. Alsa will
just replay the audio buffer, which indicates that no new audio is being
send to the audio device. Thus, the connection to the stream has been
dropped. Have you tried with Windblows?

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On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Toby Fisher wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Christopher Moore wrote:
>
> > Toby,
> > Could you send along some links for me to test.  I installed mplayer but
> > the one link I found didn't work.
>
> Ok Chris, I'm sending 3:
>
> This one works:
>
> http://STREAM.SERVSTREAM.COM/ViewWeb/BBCRadio_music/Event/1Xtra56k.asx
>
> and this is an example of one that fails in the way I described in my last
> message:
>
> http://audio.musicradio.com/BroadlandFM.asx
>
> This one doesn't even start to get played:
>
> http://streaming.capitalinteractive.co.uk/brmb_low
>
> Cheers.
>
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Re: Mplayer and Win media.

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi Johbe. What ver of mplayer are you running? I have basically the same
problem that Toby has, and it seems that my connection has been dropped.
This is apparent bc when I specify audio as alsa5, after playing one of
the non-working streams the audio buffer will start looping after about 3
secs of live playback.

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On 17 Oct 2002, Johan [iso-8859-1] Bergström wrote:

> Toby Fisher <toby_fisher@bigfoot.com> writes:
>
> > This one works:
> >
> > http://STREAM.SERVSTREAM.COM/ViewWeb/BBCRadio_music/Event/1Xtra56k.asx
>
> This one started playing as it looked in mplayer but I didnt hear
> anything.. maybe they didnt stream anything for the 30 seconds I tried.
>
> > and this is an example of one that fails in the way I described in my last
> > message:
> >
> > http://audio.musicradio.com/BroadlandFM.asx
>
> Works perfectly fine for me.
>
> > This one doesn't even start to get played:
> >
> > http://streaming.capitalinteractive.co.uk/brmb_low
>
> This one to, I'm actually listening to it atm, great music. :-)
>
> I can only suggest that you upgrade mplayer and install all the windows codecs
> again. And remember to install new config files in your ~/.mplayer dir. They
> make the old ones obsolete with every release.
>
> Johbe
>
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Re: Mplayer and Win media.

[Igor Gueths]

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Speaking of hanging, with oss the audio hangs and never starts playing
again. I suspect that this is when the buffer is looping, but oss
emulator in Alsa doesn't play this.

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On 17 Oct 2002, Johan [iso-8859-1] Bergström wrote:

>
> Forgot to mention that the streams hang after about 2 seconds as you described
> earlier and then start playing again. I bet it has something with the caching
> of streamed data to do. Altho after the first little break everything goes on
> playing just fine. mplayer never hangs for me, it continues to play.
>
> Johbe
>
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Re: Mplayer and Win media.

[Johan Bergström]

Igor Gueths <igueths@attbi.com> writes:

> Hi Johbe. What ver of mplayer are you running? I have basically the same
> problem that Toby has, and it seems that my connection has been dropped.  This
> is apparent bc when I specify audio as alsa5, after playing one of the
> non-working streams the audio buffer will start looping after about 3 secs of
> live playback.
> 

I'm constantly upgrading mplayer.. I run the development releases, cvs
snapshots. At the moment I'm using version
MPlayer CVS-021008-06:00-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

This is the complete output of one of the streams, when I tried using sdl
audio output which works just fine, because I made sure I had sdl libraries
installed and working when I compiled mplayer.

# mplayer -ao sdl http://audio.musicradio.com/BroadlandFM.asx
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale


MPlayer CVS-021008-06:00-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Reading /home/johbe/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 107 video codecs
Font /home/johbe/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (495 chars)
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid root or
/dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Input config file /home/johbe/.mplayer/input.conf parsed : 50 binds

Playing http://audio.musicradio.com/BroadlandFM.asx
Resolving audio.musicradio.com ...
Connecting to server audio.musicradio.com[80.1.65.13]:80 ...
Resolving audio.musicradio.com ...
Connecting to server audio.musicradio.com[80.1.65.13]:80 ...
=====> ASF Redirector
Connected to server: audio.musicradio.com


Playing mms://audio1.musicradio.com/BroadlandFM
Resolving audio1.musicradio.com ...
Connecting to server audio1.musicradio.com[195.92.228.141]:80 ...
Stream bitrate properties object
Max bandwidth set to 0
Resolving audio1.musicradio.com ...
Connecting to server audio1.musicradio.com[195.92.228.141]:80 ...
Cache size set to 30 KBytes
Connected to server: audio1.musicradio.com
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    Detected ASF file format!
============ ASF Stream group == START ===
 object size = 32
 stream count=[0x1][1]
   stream id=[0x1][1]
   max bitrate=[0x4f8c][20364]
============ ASF Stream group == END ===
Clip info: 
 name: Broadlands FM
 author: Broadlands FM
 copyright: GWR Group Plc.
 comments: 
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [acm] Win32/ACM decoders
Loading codec DLL: 'divxa32.acm'
Loaded DLL driver divxa32.acm
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 2501->88200 (20.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [divx] afm:acm (DivX audio (WMA))
==========================================================================
SDL: Samplerate: 22050Hz Channels: Stereo Format Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
AO: [sdl] 22050Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
Building audio filter chain for 22050Hz/2ch/16bit -> 22050Hz/2ch/16bit...
Video: no video!!!
Start playing...
A:   8.7 37.1% 6%     

And it stops after about 1-2 seconds of audio to catchup the cached data
stream or something, then it goes on playing just fine.

Johbe

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Re: Mplayer and Win media.

[Toby Fisher]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi there Toby. It seems that some client header information is possibly
> being sent to every server except the bbc server, which was the url which
> you labeled as working. I got no packet dumps of header information as of
> yet, however this seems like the most logical thing that would be
> occuring. Since I have alsa5 here, I tried both oss and alsa5. Alsa will
> just replay the audio buffer, which indicates that no new audio is being
> send to the audio device. Thus, the connection to the stream has been
> dropped. Have you tried with Windblows?

No, I don't currently have a functional Winblows system to check it out
with, in fact, I don't have a Winblows system at all at the moment.

Cheers.

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Re: Mplayer and Win media.

[igueths]

Hi Toby. The problem has been fixed apparently in the 
pre8 version of mplayer. You might also want to d/l a 
new version of the w32 codecs. Then rebuild, and things 
should work for you. I tried the url that Johbe 
mentioned in his reply, and it appeared to work after 
skipping for aprox 3 secs. 
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
> 
> > Hi there Toby. It seems that some client header information is possibly
> > being sent to every server except the bbc server, which was the url which
> > you labeled as working. I got no packet dumps of header information as of
> > yet, however this seems like the most logical thing that would be
> > occuring. Since I have alsa5 here, I tried both oss and alsa5. Alsa will
> > just replay the audio buffer, which indicates that no new audio is being
> > send to the audio device. Thus, the connection to the stream has been
> > dropped. Have you tried with Windblows?
> 
> No, I don't currently have a functional Winblows system to check it out
> with, in fact, I don't have a Winblows system at all at the moment.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
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