Igor Gueths <igueths at attbi.com> writes: > Hi Johbe. What ver of mplayer are you running? I have basically the same > problem that Toby has, and it seems that my connection has been dropped. This > is apparent bc when I specify audio as alsa5, after playing one of the > non-working streams the audio buffer will start looping after about 3 secs of > live playback. > I'm constantly upgrading mplayer.. I run the development releases, cvs snapshots. At the moment I'm using version MPlayer CVS-021008-06:00-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS) This is the complete output of one of the streams, when I tried using sdl audio output which works just fine, because I made sure I had sdl libraries installed and working when I compiled mplayer. # mplayer -ao sdl http://audio.musicradio.com/BroadlandFM.asx Using GNU internationalization Original domain: messages Original dirname: /usr/share/locale Current domain: mplayer Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale MPlayer CVS-021008-06:00-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS) CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Stepping: 6) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE Reading /home/johbe/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 107 video codecs Font /home/johbe/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (495 chars) Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid root or /dev/rtc should be readable by the user.) Using usleep() timing Input config file /home/johbe/.mplayer/input.conf parsed : 50 binds Playing http://audio.musicradio.com/BroadlandFM.asx Resolving audio.musicradio.com ... Connecting to server audio.musicradio.com[80.1.65.13]:80 ... Resolving audio.musicradio.com ... Connecting to server audio.musicradio.com[80.1.65.13]:80 ... =====> ASF Redirector Connected to server: audio.musicradio.com Playing mms://audio1.musicradio.com/BroadlandFM Resolving audio1.musicradio.com ... Connecting to server audio1.musicradio.com[195.92.228.141]:80 ... Stream bitrate properties object Max bandwidth set to 0 Resolving audio1.musicradio.com ... Connecting to server audio1.musicradio.com[195.92.228.141]:80 ... Cache size set to 30 KBytes Connected to server: audio1.musicradio.com Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Detected ASF file format! ============ ASF Stream group == START === object size = 32 stream count=[0x1][1] stream id=[0x1][1] max bitrate=[0x4f8c][20364] ============ ASF Stream group == END === Clip info: name: Broadlands FM author: Broadlands FM copyright: GWR Group Plc. comments: ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [acm] Win32/ACM decoders Loading codec DLL: 'divxa32.acm' Loaded DLL driver divxa32.acm AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 2501->88200 (20.0 kbit) Selected audio codec: [divx] afm:acm (DivX audio (WMA)) ========================================================================== SDL: Samplerate: 22050Hz Channels: Stereo Format Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) AO: [sdl] 22050Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) Building audio filter chain for 22050Hz/2ch/16bit -> 22050Hz/2ch/16bit... Video: no video!!! Start playing... A: 8.7 37.1% 6% And it stops after about 1-2 seconds of audio to catchup the cached data stream or something, then it goes on playing just fine. Johbe -- Worm Mayor: One day you'll be eating a fast-food burger and BOOM, you'll be crawling with us again. Ever wonder what makes special sauce so special? Yo.