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I regularly watch the following stream:
http://www.cbc.ca/ondemand/news/thenational.asx
I have been watching it with VLC, but VLC will not pause the stream (it just ignores the pause button). looking at their bugtracker, it sounds like this has been a known bug for well over a year.
I was hoping to try it in another media player that might not have the same issue. I have been unable to get it to play in mplayer:
Could anyone suggest an alternate mediaplayer to try or perhaps a codec I need to install or a setting I need to change to get mplayer to play it?
Here is what I get when I try to open it with mplayer:
$ mplayer "http://www.cbc.ca/ondemand/news/thenational.asx"
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
115 audio & 237 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing http://www.cbc.ca/ondemand/news/thenational.asx.
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.cbc.ca
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.cbc.ca[96.17.8.80]: 80...
STREAM_ASF, URL: http://www.cbc.ca/ondemand/news/thenational.asx
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.cbc.ca
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.cbc.ca[96.17.8.59]: 80...
size_confirm mismatch!: 22611 28271
Error while parsing chunk header
Failed, exiting.
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.cbc.ca
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.cbc.ca[96.17.8.80]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill: 0.08% (270 bytes)
Exiting... (End of file)
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$ mplayer -playlist "http://www.cbc.ca/ondemand/news/thenational.asx"
I can pause the stream, but not seek forward/backward.
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hmmm... I wonder if I'm missing an extra package... I have the "codecs" package installed.
mplayer -playlist "http://www.cbc.ca/ondemand/news/thenational.asx"
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.cbc.ca
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.cbc.ca[96.17.8.80]: 80...
STREAM_ASF, URL: http://www.cbc.ca/ondemand/news/thenational.asx
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.cbc.ca
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.cbc.ca[96.17.8.8]: 80...
size_confirm mismatch!: 22611 28271
Error while parsing chunk header
Failed, exiting.
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.cbc.ca
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.cbc.ca[96.17.8.80]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
115 audio & 237 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/14635/thenational/thenational.wmv?WMCache=0.
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.cbc.ca
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.cbc.ca[96.17.8.8]: 80...
STREAM_ASF, URL: http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/14635/thenational/thenational.wmv?WMCache=0
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.cbc.ca
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.cbc.ca[96.17.8.80]: 80...
size_confirm mismatch!: 22611 28271
Error while parsing chunk header
Failed, exiting.
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.cbc.ca
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.cbc.ca[96.17.8.8]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill: 0.06% (183 bytes)
Exiting... (End of file)
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Strange, it worked yesterday but not today. Use this:
$ mplayer -playlist "http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/14635/thenational/thenational.wmv?WMCache=0"
I don't know if that url is always valid or if it changes each day.
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That did it. Thanks nj!
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