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#1 2008-06-19 02:13:52

emphire
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From: Canada
Registered: 2007-03-21
Posts: 203

Required codec?

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)   


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#2 2008-06-19 02:55:50

nj
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Registered: 2007-04-06
Posts: 93

Re: Required codec?

$ mplayer -playlist "http://www.cbc.ca/ondemand/news/thenational.asx"

I can pause the stream, but not seek forward/backward.

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#3 2008-06-19 03:19:00

emphire
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From: Canada
Registered: 2007-03-21
Posts: 203

Re: Required codec?

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)   


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#4 2008-06-20 19:10:29

nj
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Registered: 2007-04-06
Posts: 93

Re: Required codec?

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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#5 2008-06-21 06:15:26

emphire
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From: Canada
Registered: 2007-03-21
Posts: 203

Re: Required codec?

That did it.  Thanks nj!

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