Adam Scriven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I did that, then I re-emerged realplayer and tested it on a number of > different real audio/video streams/files, and it worked just fine. > So far so good. > Then I emerged mplayer again, there was a line that said something about > setting the reallibdir to the correct /opt/RealPlayer8/Codecs directory. > Any typos are probably my bad memory, I didn't think to copy it at the time. > > But after mplayer got compiled, I've been having the same problems with it:
> 2) I tried it with a local RealVideo file, but it didn't work... the sound > was fine, but the picture didn't update, and started out full of square > artifacts Maybe encoded with one of the newest RA-codecs that aren't installed with RealPlayer 8? > 3) I tried one of the realvideo streams again, but this time it crashed > mplayer. I first tried it with the RAM redirect file, but mplayer said > it wasn't a valid file. Then I tried it with the .smi file that was > the actual source, and that's when mplayer crashed. > 4) Another real stream, audio this time, I tried with the rtsp:// url, > but mplayer came back with "Unable to open URL: http://rtsp://...";, > RAM file for that one came back with the usual "unrecognized". I've done some reading, and found that you need LIVE support compiled into mplayer to use RTSP streaming. Have you done so? (emerge live) > I'm not sure what else to try at this point. I can use RealPlayer, which > is what I've been doing because I've never seen a working version of mplayer > personally. Maybe I just do it wrong everytime. *shrug* > Anyway, if there's a way to fix this I'd love to know. Actually, I never tried streaming with mplayer. I only played local files - successfully. Cheers, Juri -- Juri Haberland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
