streaming tv with smplayer/mplayer

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#1

A Happy and Prosperous New Year openSUSE!!!

When a tv stream is opened with smplayer it goes nowhere.
A snippet from the smplayer log:

[10:20:47:604] Playlist::playItem: out of range
[10:20:47:604] BaseGui::playlistHasFinished
[10:20:50:387] Core::changeOSD: 1
[10:20:50:388] Core::pausing_prefix
[10:20:50:389] MplayerVersion::isMplayerAtLeast: comparing 27665 with 30099
[10:20:50:389] Core::tellmp: ‘pausing_keep_force osd 1’
[10:20:50:390] WARNING: tellmp: no process running: pausing_keep_force osd 1
[10:20:50:390] Core::updateWidgets
[10:20:50:391] DefaultGui::updateWidgets
[10:20:50:391] BaseGui::updateWidgets

From mplayer:

BYU Television | Watch Now

MPlayer dev-SVN-r30099-4.4-openSUSE Linux 11.2 (x86_64)-Packman (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer TeamCan’t open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can’t init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing BYU Television | Watch Now.
Resolving BYU Television | Keeping You Connected for AF_INET…
Connecting to server BYU Television | Keeping You Connected[128.187.36.41]: 80…
Cache size set to 1000 KBytes

Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)
Cache fill: 2.73% (27938 bytes)

Exiting… (End of file)
ID_EXIT=EOF

Would someone please interpret what the log is telling us?

Thanks for your help!

#2

Try:


smplayer -playlist http://some_website/stream.asx

Caspar.

#3

Hello there,

Most likely the crash is caused by the cache for the stream.

Just disable it from smplayer: Options/Preferences/Performance/Cache: set the cache to 0 for stream.

Same thing

For more help with smplayer try its forums. :wink:

Cheers.