[MPlayer-users] Playing Real Video?

[Naota]

Mr. Christopher F. Miller wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:25:49PM -0400, Naota wrote:
> 
>>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>>
>>
>>MvH wrote:
>>
>>>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>>>ok bonk bonk
>>>I bounce my head on the desk. I downloaded one of those .rm files and took
>>>a look at their contents.
>>>
>>>passed the rtsp:// url to mplayer.
>>>
>>>no thanks guys
>>>
>>>;)
>>>
>>
>>So, you did 
>>rtsp://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/nps/dekortefilm/filmbank/cityatnight.rm 
>> ?
>>When I put that address into mplayer, I get
>>
>>Playing 
>>rtsp://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/nps/dekortefilm/filmbank/cityatnight.rm
>>Failed to create AF_INET6 socket:
>>Resolving cgi.omroep.nl for AF_INET...
>>Connecting to server cgi.omroep.nl[145.58.30.10]:554 ...
>>Connection timeout
>>Unable to open URL: 
>>rtsp://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/nps/dekortefilm/filmbank/cityatnight.rm
>>Option stream url: This URL doesn't have a hostname part.
>>File not found: 'cgi-bin/streams?/nps/dekortefilm/filmbank/cityatnight.rm'
>>Failed to open 
>>rtsp://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/nps/dekortefilm/filmbank/cityatnight.rm
>>
>>I don't know what to do.
> 
> 
> 
> If its not a stream, try wget and if that gets a file, look in it.  In
> this case:

Yeah, I can play realmedia once it's on my computer, but streaming is a 
different story.


> mplayer -ao alsa9:emu10k1 rtsp://streams2.omroep.nl/nps/dekortefilm/filmbank/cityatnight.rm
> 
> worked for me.  Your ao is probably different.
> 
Wow, it works with 
rtsp://streams2.omroep.nl/nps/dekortefilm/filmbank/cityatnight.rm

I just had to do 'mplayer 
rtsp://streams2.omroep.nl/nps/dekortefilm/filmbank/cityatnight.rm'

Why do you think 
cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/nps/dekortefilm/filmbank/cityatnight.rm 
wouldn't play?

Naota