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Hi,
When I try to play a video of a television broadcasting of the Netherlands Public Broadcasting using Uitzendinggemist.nl, I get an mplayer box playing the video, e.g. within this window (I hope it's available outside of my country).
In Windows Media Player (running in my favourite operating system) I can use the 'seek' functionality to fast forward a stream by moving the scroller (e.g., after playing got stuck, which happens every now and then, especially during interaction with the user interface; the screen just goes black, mplayer tries to connect to the server and then displays 'Idle'). In mplayer, I can't.
After retrieving the URL of the video stream I started mplayer from the command line to get more information. I also tried to seek by using arrow forward and backward:
MPlayer SVN-r32678-4.5.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
161 audio & 350 video codecs
Playing mms://blaster.omroep.nl/public/ug-od/media2/00/ceres/1/nps/rest/2010/NPS_1162967/bb.20101219.asf?wmt=4d0e9732&wmhash=2c598e38.
STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://blaster.omroep.nl/public/ug-od/media2/00/ceres/1/nps/rest/2010/NPS_1162967/bb.20101219.asf?wmt=4d0e9732&wmhash=2c598e38
Resolving blaster.omroep.nl for AF_INET...
Connecting to server blaster.omroep.nl[145.58.33.155]: 1755...
connect error: Connection refused
Resolving blaster.omroep.nl for AF_INET...
Connecting to server blaster.omroep.nl[145.58.33.155]: 80...
Resolving blaster.omroep.nl for AF_INET...
Connecting to server blaster.omroep.nl[145.58.33.155]: 80...
Cache size set to 950 KBytes
Cache fill: 19.83% (192865 bytes)
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 1
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 2
VIDEO: [WMV3] 320x180 24bpp 1000.000 fps 452.0 kbps (55.2 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
title:
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: /usr/lib/codecs/wmv9dmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x894c80a could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
Failed to create DMO filter
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmv9dmod.dll.
You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package.
Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: /usr/lib/codecs/wmvdmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x894c80a could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
Failed to create DMO filter
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmvdmod.dll.
You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package.
Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
[wmv3 @ 0x89c26a0]Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 0
Selected video codec: [ffwmv3] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg WMV3/WMV9)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 48.0 kbit/3.40% (ratio: 6003->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 320x180 => 320x180 Planar YV12
A: 9.9 V: 9.9 A-V: -0.009 ct: -0.039 173/173 8% 0% 2.5% 1 0 10%
Cannot seek in this file.
A: 10.4 V: 10.4 A-V: 0.006 ct: -0.040 184/184 8% 0% 2.5% 1 0 12%
Cannot seek in this file.Last edited by Marcel- (2010-12-20 21:49:20)
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … eo-351309/
It's a couple years old but it may still be valid.
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That's indeed the same issue, thanks. In short, as these streams are served using the mms: protocol, I cannot use wget to get the file, so I used the second option to save the stream to my harddisk:
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile filename.wmv mms://example.com/nameofstreamOffline