i'm trying to listen to a radio show at this link:
http://www.thestreet.com/m/_rmradio/radio (requires free subscription)

i've determined that the link (after you cut through all the extraneous bs links) is:
mms://mms.thestreet.com/cramer120104.wma

this was working before, hadn't used it for a while and now no longer works. the error indicates that the connection is refused but i don't know why. i've tried putting in my username/password on the command but that makes no difference and i didn't have to do that before when it was working. i just installed the latest version of mplayer & codecs and am able to listen to .wma files from other web-sites. i'd like to know if anyone can get this site with linux...


> mplayer mms://mms.thestreet.com/cramer120104.wma

Player 1.0pre5-RPM-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Celeron Covington/Pentium II Deschutes,Tonga/Pentium II Xeon 447.8 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 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/mike/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/mike/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/mike/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/mike/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
Can't open input config file /home/mike/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds

Playing mms://mms.thestreet.com/cramer120104.wma.
Resolving mms.thestreet.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: mms.thestreet.com
Resolving mms.thestreet.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server mms.thestreet.com[209.67.12.173]:1755 ...
Connect error : Connection refused
Resolving mms.thestreet.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: mms.thestreet.com
Resolving mms.thestreet.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server mms.thestreet.com[209.67.12.173]:1755 ...
Connect error : Connection refused
asf_streaming_start failed
Check if this is a playlist which requires -playlist option
Example: mplayer -playlist <url>
Unable to open URL: mms://mms.thestreet.com/cramer120104.wma


Exiting... (End of file)

Try using xine and see if you get an error. If you do then it's probably not just a problem with mplayer, but you may need newer codecs or it may just be another problem.

i finally got around to installing xine, and it works great!

i didn't even have to install the windows codecs, i wonder why xine works but not mplayer? well as long as one of them does. thanks for the tip, reddazz.

just put in MPlayer-20050806 and it works. now both xine and mplayer work.

So it was a problem with your previuos version of mplayer. Its a good thing you tried a newer verison.