On Mon January 28 2008 08:17:32 Frank Cox wrote: > I have been fiddling around with online video tonight, and have run into a > situation that I can't solve. > > Can anyone figure out how to play this stream with mplayer: > > http://www.scififree.tv/ I eventually got this to play but not without more fiddling. the first link 'the phantom from 10000 leagues', I clicked the QT 500Kbps got a new page which mplayerplug-in promptly dies on, so looking at the url on the command line with $mplayer -v http://www.scififree.tv/unicast_mov/AFTVSciFiH264500.mov dies as well but with some clues i.e --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- START --- protocol: [HTTP/1.1] http minor version: [1] uri: [(null)] method: [(null)] status code: [200] reason phrase: [OK] body size: [792] Fields: 0 - Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:08:46 GMT 1 - Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) mod_ssl/2.8.24 OpenSSL/0.9.7l PHP/4.4.7 2 - Cache-Control: max-age=3600 3 - Expires: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:08:46 GMT 4 - Last-Modified: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:12:38 GMT 5 - ETag: "4df5b-318-45d5d7f6" 6 - Accept-Ranges: bytes 7 - Content-Length: 792 8 - Connection: close 9 - Content-Type: video/quicktime --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- END --- the content-length of 792 says the server is giving us the true location of the content so lets try $mplayer -v -playlist http://www.scififree.tv/unicast_mov/AFTVSciFiH264500.mov well no joy either, so lets take a look at this file $wget -Svc http://www.scififree.tv/unicast_mov/AFTVSciFiH264500.mov in this file at the end is an rtsp url rtsp://video2.multicasttech.com/AFTVSciFiH264500.sdp but this did'nt work oh why you ask? because of my firewall you have to accept packets from video2.multicasttech.com or 63.105.122.35 to view. I've seen a lot of these QT servers not work until you open your firewall to them first. (black & white movies in high-def what is this world coming to :-) ) p.s I'm using my own recent build of mplayer r25850 ...dex
