I need a streaming client

sokar · 02-29-2004, 05:14 PM

I need a streaming client that basically does the same thing as quicktime player for windows.
I have Xine and Mplayer, but i can't receive streamed "rtsp://*.mov" files

From Realplayer 9 I get Segmentation Fault during the instalation but still can run the player. But when I try to access a rtsp:// site it says I don't have enough permissions to perform autoupdate (and I am running it as root)

What streaming clients are out there?

Thanks

rokka · 02-29-2004, 05:24 PM

Have you downloaded the quicktime codeces from the download section on mplayers home page?

sokar · 02-29-2004, 05:48 PM

I can read the mov file by accessing it directly, but not through streaming (i have Darwin Streaming Server installed and the streaming works - tested with quicktime for windows client)

rokka · 02-29-2004, 06:57 PM

That's odd. All I ever use for streaming is mplayer. If you can play the file I figure it's not a codec problem. Did you use live.com's source library http://www.live.com/mplayer/ ?

sokar · 03-01-2004, 10:11 AM

i compiled mplayer with Live.com support and the error changed. It now supports RTSP streaming (using verbose mode i see the RTSP protocol communication) but it says it can't identify the codec used by the stream (but it can play the file directly)

rokka · 03-01-2004, 02:51 PM

I'm running out of ideas

Note that I am no streaming nor codec expert. But if your server is publicly available on the Internet and if you want to, I could give it a shoot from here. You could also try the mplayer forums/emailing lists, but you probably knew that already.