Hi, I've tried to play the following mp3 stream http://france-info1.creacast.com/france-info.mp3 This is not a file but a live stream of a radio. using mplayer, but it does not work. It returns immediately with "End Of File". (at the end the output). I did not find anything on google or mplayer documentation about it. I can download part of it with wget [andrea at thinkpad tmp]$ wget http://france-info1.creacast.com/france-info.mp3 --2008-11-02 09:29:07-- http://france-info1.creacast.com/france-info.mp3 Resolving france-info1.creacast.com... 83.141.132.50 Connecting to france-info1.creacast.com|83.141.132.50|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 100000000 (95M) [audio/x-mpeg, audio/x-mpeg-3, audio/mpeg3, audio/mpeg] Saving to: `france-info.mp3' 0% [ ] 33,632 10.3K/s eta 2h 37m ^ And this is the output of mplayer -v [andrea at thinkpad mplayer]$ ./mplayer -v http://france-info1.creacast.com/france-info.mp3 MPlayer dev-SVN-r27874-4.3.0 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz (Family: 6, Model: 9, Stepping: 5) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/andrea/.mplayer/codecs.conf' Reading /home/andrea/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/andrea/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Using built-in default codecs.conf. Configuration: --enable-menu --disable-arts --disable-esd --disable-inet6 --with-extraincdir=/home/andrea/projects/multimedia/live --disable-mga --disable-xmga CommandLine: '-v' 'http://france-info1.creacast.com/france-info.mp3' init_freetype get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/andrea/.mplayer/font/font.desc' Bitmap font /home/andrea/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay get_path('fonts') -> '/home/andrea/.mplayer/fonts' Using nanosleep() timing get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/andrea/.mplayer/input.conf' Parsing input config file /home/andrea/.mplayer/input.conf Input config file /home/andrea/.mplayer/input.conf parsed: 60 binds get_path('france-info.mp3.conf') -> '/home/andrea/.mplayer/france-info.mp3.conf' Playing http://france-info1.creacast.com/france-info.mp3. get_path('sub/') -> '/home/andrea/.mplayer/sub/' Filename for url is now http://france-info1.creacast.com/france-info.mp3 Filename for url is now http://france-info1.creacast.com/france-info.mp3 STREAM_HTTP(1), URL: http://france-info1.creacast.com/france-info.mp3 Resolving france-info1.creacast.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server france-info1.creacast.com[83.141.132.50]: 80... --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- START --- protocol: [ICY] http minor version: [0] uri: [(null)] method: [(null)] status code: [200] reason phrase: [OK] body size: [0] Fields: 0 - Icy-Notice1: <br>Trilogic Advanced Sound Server 1.0.54<br> 1 - Icy-Notice2: www.trilogic.fr 2 - Icy-Name: Trilogic Advanced Sound Server 1.0.54 3 - Icy-Genre: Unknown Genre 4 - Icy-Url: www.trilogic.fr 5 - Icy-Pub: 1 6 - Icy-Br: 64 7 - Icy-Metaint: 16000 8 - Content-Type: audio/mpeg --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- END --- Name : Trilogic Advanced Sound Server 1.0.54 Genre : Unknown Genre Website: www.trilogic.fr Public : yes Bitrate: 64kbit/s Cache size set to 320 KBytes STREAM: [null] http://france-info1.creacast.com/france-info.mp3 STREAM: Description: http streaming STREAM: Author: Bertrand, Albeau, Reimar Doeffinger, Arpi? STREAM: Comment: plain http CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0 pre:65536 eof:1 Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not initialized.. Exiting... (End of file)