On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 15:09 +0100, Pikachu_2014 wrote: > > > 2009/12/14 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> > On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:31 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Monday 14 December 2009 12:47:27 Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 15:44 +0100, ELMORABITY Mohamed > wrote: > > > > Le dimanche 13 décembre 2009 à 14:33 +0000, Patrick > O'Callaghan a > > > > écrit : > > > > > I'm experiencing considerable frustration trying to > get Real Audio > > > > > files to play. > > > > > > > > did you tried to use a player provided by Fedora or RPM > Fusion instead? > > > > You should first try with mplayer for example. Some Real > streams may > > > > requires win32/win64 extra codecs, and mplayer will > signale this in this > > > > case. > > > > > > I tried both vlc and dragon on a test file. > > > > Does mplayer play that test file? Are you talking about a > *file* or a stream > > from the Internet? > > > Both. I tried originally with the downloaded .ram file for > that same > audio stream. > > > > Mplayer complains (but not about codecs) and stops: > > > > > > $ mplayer > > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/rams/inourtime_20081009.ram > > > MPlayer SVN-r29800-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team > > > 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. > > > > This is just the regular complaint that you don't have > remote control set up. > > Ignore it. > > > > > Playing > > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/rams/inourtime_20081009.ram. > > > Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET6... > > > Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.bbc.co.uk > > > > This is just a complaint that IPv6 doesn't work. Ignore it. > > > > > Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET... > > > Connecting to server www.bbc.co.uk[212.58.251.195]: 80... > > > > IPv4 does resolve, and mplayer successfully connects. This > is good. > > > > > Cache size set to 320 KBytes > > > Cache fill: 0.04% (139 bytes) > > > > > > > > > Exiting... (End of file) > > > > This is bad. Mplayer received only 139 bytes of the stream. > Maybe you can try > > it in a more verbose mode (-v), hopefully it will display > more info about what > > is going on. > > > The -playlist option made it work. > > OT: in the interests of having a more user-friendly > experience, such as > fast-forward etc., I also tried with gmplayer (also with > -playlist). It > started playing OK but on hitting the fast-forward control the > UI just > froze and had to be "kill -9"'ed. gmplayer seems to be > someone's idea of > a joke, which is a pity as mplayer is otherwise very capable. > > poc > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > > > Anyway, if mplayer can read it, any player based directly on ffmpeg > (vlc for example) or indirectly (xine with xine-lib-extras-freeworld > or totem with gstreamer-ffmpeg) will be able to read your stream I just noticed you mentioned vlc. As I said earlier, vlc didn't work in this case. It played about a minute of the steam and then just stopped. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
