mplayer error with real video stream

[jlz901]

I need to play a video stream that used to work with mplayer but now produces the error message below. Does anyone familiar with mplayer know what I can do to make it play properly?

MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (Family: 15, Model: 75, Step
ping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf doesn't look like a font description, ignoring.
Cannot load font: c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf

Playing rtsp://212.54.100.35/broadcast/live.rm.
STREAM_RTSP, URL: rtsp://212.54.100.35/broadcast/live.rm
Connecting to server 212.54.100.35[212.54.100.35]: 554...
Cache size set to 640 KBytes
Cache fill: 18.75% (122880 bytes)
REAL file format detected.
Stream description: Video Stream
Stream mimetype: video/x-pn-realvideo
Stream description: Audio Stream
Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio
demux_real: invalid chunksize! (0)
VIDEO: [RV40] 320x240 24bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 32.0 kbit/2.27% (ratio: 4005->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffcook] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg COOK audio decoder)
================================================== ========================
<vo_directx> adapter 0: Primary Display Adapter
<vo_directx> adapter 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
<vo_directx> adapter 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT <--
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.so.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv4.so.6.0.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Selected video codec: [rv40win] vfm: realvid (Win32 RealPlayer 9 RV40 decoder)
================================================== ========================
AO: [dsound] 44100Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Planar I420)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar I420 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> Planar YV12 special converter
VO: [directx] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12 [fs]

Too many video packets in the buffer: (4096 in 2693139 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.

Too many video packets in the buffer: (4096 in 2693139 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.

[Krispy Kritter]

Have you tried installing/reinstalling the latest version real alternative?

[Placio74]

I need to play a video stream that used to work with mplayer but now produces the error message below. Does anyone familiar with mplayer know what I can do to make it play properly?

Add binary codec package.
MPlayer can't play RealVideo without this.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#binary_codecs

[jlz901]

I already had the "windows-all" codec package installed -- but I extracted the "windows-essential" codec files over the old ones to see if it would do anything.

Is it using a codec other than the one in the codecs directory?

I still get the same error message.

Any ideas?

[Placio74]

I'm use frontend MPUI - just put binary codecs package to subdirectory codecs and can play this stream.

Directly from command line too.



I'm look at first post...

Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Selected video codec: [rv40win] vfm: realvid (Win32 RealPlayer 9 RV40 decoder)

Maybe problem not in codec?

Too many video packets in the buffer: (4096 in 2693139 bytes).

[quasar123]

I have the same problem as the topic starter. Im using MPlayer-mingw32-1.0rc1 and Realvideo doesn;t play. However when I replace the MPlayer-mingw32-1.0rc1 mplayer.exe with MPlayer-mingw32-1.0pre7 exe, it works again (without changing any of the codecs).

So my guess the new mplayer.exe 1.0rc1 doesn't support realmedia as it used to be? Does anybody know a work around or to get in touch with a mplayer developer?? I'll stick with 1.0pre7 in the meantime !



PS. The problem has nothing todo with Real Alternative as this is totally different program (we use MPlayer to avoid Real Player or Real Alternative in the first place!!!).

[celtic_druid]

Well if RealAlt installs real's dll's to somewhere in the path then I think they would also work with mplayer.

Try a recent SVN build, if the problem still occurs then I guess submit to the mailing list.