mms stream problem

Hello! I have a problem playing a certain mms stream mms://85.17.2.144/sportfm7712 . Other streams i ve tried work well ( even mms) but not this one. I have tried totem (with xine and gstreamer), amarok and mplayer without any results.

I use ubuntu 6.10 on an amilo 7400 (centrino).

Thanks in advance!

Mike

There dosn't appear to be anything there:

Playing mms://85.17.2.144/sportfm7712.
STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://85.17.2.144/sportfm7712
Connecting to server 85.17.2.144[85.17.2.144]: 1755...
connect error: Connection refused
Connecting to server 85.17.2.144[85.17.2.144]: 80...
Connecting to server 85.17.2.144[85.17.2.144]: 80...
Cache size set to 64 KBytes
Cache fill: 12.50% (8192 bytes) Ahhhh, stream_chunck size is too small: 4
Error while parsing chunk header
Cache fill: 14.93% (9783 bytes)
ASF file format detected.
Clip info:
name:
author:
copyright:
comments:
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [dshow] Win32/DirectShow decoders
AUDIO: 8000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 4.9 kbit/3.85% (ratio: 616->16000)
Selected audio codec: [acelp] afm: dshow (ACELP.net Sipro Lab Audio Decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 11.7 (11.6) of 11.0 (11.0) 0.9% 0%

Exiting... (End of file)
Had static for maybe 3 seconds then mplayer closed.

i am having a problem like yours
i cant play mms://best.live24.gr/best1222
iv already posted it

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...60#post2636360

well i dont know what is wrong with those links i can play sportfm without any problem

kav@susebox:~/firefox downloads> mplayer mms://85.17.2.144/sportfm7712
MPlayer 1.0rc1-SUSE Linux 10.2 (x86_64)-Packman-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (Family: 15, Model: 43, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Connection refused
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing mms://85.17.2.144/sportfm7712.
STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://85.17.2.144/sportfm7712
Resolving 85.17.2.144 for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: 85.17.2.144
Connecting to server 85.17.2.144[85.17.2.144]: 1755...
connect error: Connection refused
Resolving 85.17.2.144 for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: 85.17.2.144
Connecting to server 85.17.2.144[85.17.2.144]: 80...
Resolving 85.17.2.144 for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: 85.17.2.144
Connecting to server 85.17.2.144[85.17.2.144]: 80...
Cache size set to 64 KBytes
Cache fill: 12.50% (8192 bytes)
ASF file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 20.0 kbit/3.91% (ratio: 2500->64000)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 32000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:1256464.9 (349:01:04.9) of 0.0 (unknown) 0.3% 6%


and when im trying to open the bestfm link i get problems

whould u like to swap computers so we can both listen to our favorite radios ?

mms://85.17.2.144/sportfm7712 works for me on Rhythmbox Music Player.

mms://best.live24.gr/best1222 does not work for me. Is the URL correct? I can go to www.best.live24.gr. It is a Flash Site and I can hear music. Unfortunately I cannot read Greek and don't really understand.

its correct mate... im using it @ windows and i also said that it might work if i try 20-30 times.... im so desparate.. the flash the music u can hear is the introduction music at the site to connect and listen live u need media player...

the way i got this link was to use a urlsnooper from windows any1 else got any clue why is not working ???

Well, it's hardly an effort free solution, but this sometimes works:

1. replace the mms with http
2. use curl on that URL
3. see other URLs
4. feed these other URLs to mplayer, xine, xmms

I had a similar problem with Nasa TV, for which I wrote a little script which you can adapt for you radio station:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $url1 = "http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/";
my @r;

print "fetching first page: $url1\n";
grep { m|(http://www\.nasa\.gov/\d+main_NASATV_Windows\.asx)|i && push @r, $1; } `GET $url1` || die "error fetching first page: $!\n";

my $url2 = $r[0] || die "failed to find .asx link in first page\n";
@r = ();

print "fetching second page: $url2\n";
grep { m/ref href=\"(http.*)\"/i && push @r, $1; } `GET $url2` || die "error fetching second page: $!\n";

my $url3 = $r[0] || die "failed to find link in second page\n";
@r = ();

print "fetching third page: $url3\n";
grep { m/\"(mms[^"]+)\"/i && push @r, $1; } `GET $url3` || die "error fetching third page: $!\n";

my $last;
foreach (@r) {
    print $_ . "\n";
    $last = $_;
}

exec "mplayer '$last'";

ill try to find out now what exactly u just did but did the bestfm work that way ?

i get this error

kav@susebox:~> perl -w write.pl
fetching first page: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
Can't exec "GET": No such file or directory at write.pl line 8.
error fetching first page: No such file or directory
kav@susebox:~>


i ve never used perl before.. i created a text file and copied your script on it is that right ?

You need to have the GET tool installed. In Ubuntu this is part of the libwww-perl package.

Just changing the URL in the script isn't enough - this script is tailored specifically to the NASA TV feed.

I looked at the Best FM feed, and it looks much simpler, so I made this script for it:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

# note mms replaced with http
my $url = "http://best.live24.gr/best1222";
my @r;
grep { m|Ref\d+?=(http://.*)|i && push @r, $1; } `GET $url` || die "error fetching first page: $!\n";

exec "mplayer $r[0]\n";

Works for me with mplayer and xine - try different media players to suit your tastes.