On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:58:16AM +0000, Juri Haberland wrote: > Adam Scriven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) I tried it with a local RealVideo file, but it didn't work... the sound > > was fine, but the picture didn't update, and started out full of square > > artifacts > > Maybe encoded with one of the newest RA-codecs that aren't installed > with RealPlayer 8?
Nope, a very old Real file, that's a real Video file, but still has the .ra extension. > > 3) I tried one of the realvideo streams again, but this time it crashed > > mplayer. I first tried it with the RAM redirect file, but mplayer said > > it wasn't a valid file. Then I tried it with the .smi file that was > > the actual source, and that's when mplayer crashed. > > 4) Another real stream, audio this time, I tried with the rtsp:// url, > > but mplayer came back with "Unable to open URL: http://rtsp://...";, > > RAM file for that one came back with the usual "unrecognized". > > I've done some reading, and found that you need LIVE support compiled > into mplayer to use RTSP streaming. Have you done so? (emerge live) Nope, I didn't know that, I'll have to do that too, thank you! Where did you see that BTW, I never noticed anything about that, but maybe I didn't look hard enough. :( > > I'm not sure what else to try at this point. I can use RealPlayer, which > > is what I've been doing because I've never seen a working version of mplayer > > personally. Maybe I just do it wrong everytime. *shrug* > > Anyway, if there's a way to fix this I'd love to know. > > Actually, I never tried streaming with mplayer. I only played local > files - successfully. Ok, I emerged the LIVE plugin, then re-emerged mplayer, and I still get all the same errors. *shrug* At this point I'm not sure what to do. Thanks though. Adam -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
