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<TITLE>RE: Streaming 6pr (was Re: [plug] windows - a rant)</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Trevor Phillips wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>| On Friday 07 May 2004 13:56, Garry wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|>Does your mplayer work with <A HREF="http://6pr.com.au/live.asx" TARGET="_blank">http://6pr.com.au/live.asx</A> ?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|>I get:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|>- --snip--</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|>Connecting to server 6pr.com.au[203.30.44.22]:80 ...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|>size_confirm mismatch!: 22611 28271</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|>Error while parsing chunk header</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|>Unknown protocol: http</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|>asf_streaming_start failed</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|>Unable to open URL: <A HREF="http://6pr.com.au/live.asx" TARGET="_blank">http://6pr.com.au/live.asx</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|>Option stream url: This URL doesn't have a hostname part.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|>File not found: 'live.asx'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|>Failed to open <A HREF="http://6pr.com.au/live.asx" TARGET="_blank">http://6pr.com.au/live.asx</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|>Obviously i'm missing a codec or somming..</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>| I got it to work - but not quite as easily as that - but not very hard</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>either.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>| After a similar failure, I went:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>| wget <A HREF="http://6pr.com.au/live.asx" TARGET="_blank">http://6pr.com.au/live.asx</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>| cat live.asx</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>| picked out the <ENTRY> <REF HREF=....> URL, and then:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>| mplayer <A HREF="http://203.30.47.38/6pr" TARGET="_blank">http://203.30.47.38/6pr</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>| Which, after a while buffering, started playing fine.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>| This is on a Debian Testing system, with those Marillat packages,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>including</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>| the w32codecs package.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>| My experience is a lot of these streaming formats start with a meta</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>file, so</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>| if you just wget them, you can often rummage around inside for the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>next URL</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>| to try. Why mplayer can't do this itself I'm not sure...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>|</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>>EXCELLENT! Works a beauty, thanks Trevor.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>Regards</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>Garry</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I'm not so sure mplayer can't do this... I typed in 'mplayer <A HREF="http://6pr.com.au/live.asx'" TARGET="_blank">http://6pr.com.au/live.asx'</A> and it just worked! :)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The only problem I DID have was that it was taking a while to fill the buffer (Default 8MB). I took it down to 140KB and it works fine without skipping or anything. I tried a few different levels to get the best result, and this turned out OK. Also tried this with the triplej stream and it's great!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Here's the output for those interested:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>[bman@Holly mplayer]# mplayer <A HREF="http://6pr.com.au/live.asx" TARGET="_blank">http://6pr.com.au/live.asx</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2><cut out the codec and remote control stuff etc...></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Playing <A HREF="http://6pr.com.au/live.asx" TARGET="_blank">http://6pr.com.au/live.asx</A>.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Resolving 6pr.com.au for AF_INET...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Connecting to server 6pr.com.au[203.30.44.22]:80 ...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Resolving 6pr.com.au for AF_INET...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Connecting to server 6pr.com.au[203.30.44.22]:80 ...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Connected to server: 6pr.com.au</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Playing <A HREF="http://203.30.47.38/6pr" TARGET="_blank">http://203.30.47.38/6pr</A>.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Connecting to server 203.30.47.38[203.30.47.38]:80 ...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Connecting to server 203.30.47.38[203.30.47.38]:80 ...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Stream bitrate properties object</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Max bandwidth set to 0</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Connecting to server 203.30.47.38[203.30.47.38]:80 ...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Cache size set to 140 KBytes</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Connected to server: 203.30.47.38</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Cache fill: 5.71% (8192 bytes)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>That's it. :)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Phil. </FONT>
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