On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:45:57 +0000 dexter <ddmbox2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Interesting. Perhaps the stream isn't getting past my router for some reason? Doing the steps you detailed here looks like it's going to work -- it seems to go through the motions, then tells me this: Playing rtsp://video2.multicasttech.com/AFTVSciFiH264500.sdp. Resolving video2.multicasttech.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: video2.multicasttech.com Resolving video2.multicasttech.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server video2.multicasttech.com[63.105.122.35]: 554... A single media stream only is supported atm. rtsp_session: unsupported RTSP server. Server type is 'QTSS/5.5.4 (Build/489.0.5; Platform/MacOSX; Release/Update; )'. STREAM_LIVE555, URL: rtsp://video2.multicasttech.com/AFTVSciFiH264500.sdp This stream is non-cacheable Stream not seekable! file format detected. Initiated "video/H264" RTP subsession on port 36110 Initiated "audio/MPEG4-GENERIC" RTP subsession on port 36112 demux_rtp: Failed to guess the video frame rate VIDEO: [H264] 0x0 0bpp 0.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) FPS not specified in the header or invalid, use the -fps option. ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding) FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s! AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400) Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder) ========================================================================== AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Video: no video Starting playback... A: 0.0 (unknown) of 0.0 (unknown) ??,?% 0% -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com