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Subject: Re: chess.fm and Linux

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 04:44:24 02/26/04

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On February 26, 2004 at 05:59:13, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On February 26, 2004 at 05:38:58, Frank Phillips wrote:
>
>>Has anybody managed to listen to chess.fm recently, using Linux (mplayer).
>>
>>mplayer http://www.chess.fm/linux.asx -nocache
>>
>>used to work, but no longer seems to fo me.
>>
>>Frank
>
>There was a discussion about mplayer issues on ICC several months ago. I
>remember that it worked for me too but stopped to work all of a sudden. (not
>sure whether I switched to another version)
>
>I remember people having problems with versions 0.9x and some people suggested
>to go to version 1.0 - which solved the problem for some and not for others...
>
>What error message do you get? And what version of mplayer are you using?
>
>Sargon

Host of errors.  This is on Mandrake 9.2 - with the updates.  If does not work
on Slaackware, Fedora and Knoppix.  IIRC the errors are the same.

Thanks for the comments.  I will try a newer version.

Frank



MPlayer 1.0pre2-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred 2003 MHz (Family: 6,
Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/fp/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/fp/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/home/fp/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 61 audio & 157 video codecs
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
font: can't open file: /home/fp/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup
scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/fp/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or
directory
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 52 binds
Can't init input joystick
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Setting up LIRC support...
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.chess.fm/linux.asx
Failed to create AF_INET6 socket:
Resolving www.chess.fm for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.chess.fm[66.223.51.123]:80 ...
Failed to create AF_INET6 socket:
Resolving www.chess.fm for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.chess.fm[66.223.51.123]:80 ...
Connected to server: www.chess.fm


Playing
mms://wm.chess-na-regional.speedera.net/wm.chess-na-regional/commercials/gateway-nic2.wma
Failed to create AF_INET6 socket:
Resolving wm.chess-na-regional.speedera.net for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wm.chess-na-regional.speedera.net[208.185.54.37]:80 ...
Failed to create AF_INET6 socket:
Stream bitrate properties object
Max bandwidth set to 0
Resolving wm.chess-na-regional.speedera.net for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wm.chess-na-regional.speedera.net[208.185.54.37]:80 ...
Server return 500:Internal Server Error
Failed to parse header
Failed to create AF_INET6 socket:
Resolving wm.chess-na-regional.speedera.net for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wm.chess-na-regional.speedera.net[208.185.54.37]:1755 ...
connected
file object, packet length = 966 (966)
unknown object
unknown object
unknown object
stream object, stream id: 1
unknown object
data object

alert! eof
mmst packet_length = 966
Cache size set to 0 KBytes
Connected to server: wm.chess-na-regional.speedera.net
Stream not seekable!
ASF file format detected.
============ ASF Stream group == START ===
 object size = 32
 stream count=[0x1][1]
   stream id=[0x1][1]
   max bitrate=[0x504d][20557]
============ ASF Stream group == END ===
Stream not seekable!



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