[MPlayer-users] PLEASE RESPOND -- Problem playing some pre-recorded ASF streams...

[Jeffrey J. Kosowsky]

I continue to have problems playing some (but not all) pre-recorded
ASF streams. Googling, I noticed that some others have also had the
same problem but never received any response.

Note that the same asf streams play *perfectly* well under xine and
Windoze media player.

I am running mplayer-1.0-0.5.pre2 with all the latest win32codecs and
ffmpeg installed.

It is not clear to me what is the root cause of the problem since even
on a single site, I find that some stored asf streams play while
others fail.

Here is a sample output from trying to run mplayer on such a stream:
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mplayer -v  mms://msmedia.a7.org/arutz7/shows/mitzad.wma
MPlayer dev-CVS--3.3.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood 2540 MHz (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/myname/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/myname/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/myname/.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' 'mms://msmedia.a7.org/arutz7/shows/mitzad.wma'
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/myname/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
font: can't open file: /home/myname/.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/myname/.mplayer/input.conf'
Can't open input config file /home/myname/.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
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such device
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Connection refused
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
get_path('mitzad.wma.conf') -> '/home/myname/.mplayer/mitzad.wma.conf'

Playing mms://msmedia.a7.org/arutz7/shows/mitzad.wma.
Trying ASF/HTTP...
Resolving msmedia.a7.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server msmedia.a7.org[198.64.140.205]:80 ...
=====> ASF Prerecorded
=====> ASF header chunk follows
=====> ASF header chunk follows
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 64 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)    =====> ASF header chunk follows
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    =====> ASF header chunk follows
Cache fill:  4.03% (2642 bytes)    ASF file format detected.

 Title: ÔÞæâÓ Ô×áÙÓÙ
 Author: Arutz Sheva Broadcasting Network
 Copyright: May Not be Copied or Rebroadcast without Permission

ASF: packets: 13015  flags: 2  max_packet_size: 1311  min_packet_size: 1311  max_bitrate: 20449  preroll: 2176
stream type: guid_audio_stream
stream concealment: guid_audio_conceal_interleave
type: 28 bytes,  stream: 8 bytes  ID: 1
unk1: 0  unk2: 11DF6C8
FILEPOS=0x9DC
==> Found audio stream: 1
======= WAVE Format =======
Format Tag: 353 (0x161)
Channels: 1
Samplerate: 32000
avg byte/sec: 2500
Block align: 1280
bits/sample: 16
cbSize: 10
Unknown extra header dump: [0] [88] [0] [0] [17] [0] [0] [14] [0] [0] 
===========================
ASF: audio scrambling: 1 x 1 x 1280
============ ASF Stream group == START ===
 object size = 32
 stream count=[0x1][1]
   stream id=[0x1][1]
   max bitrate=[0x4fe1][20449]
============ ASF Stream group == END ===
Found movie at 0xA52 - 0x104655B
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 0x86afa80  
DEMUXER: freeing sh_audio at 0x86b0878  
vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited..

Exiting... (End of file)