Cannot open mms/rstp streams in Mplayer

[Dotan Cohen]

On 17/04/07, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> On Tue April 17 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > WMV files play fine in mplayer, the wife's friends mail them to us all
> > the time! I disabled IPv6, restarted, and temporarily disabled the
> > Fedora firewall with the system-config-network tool. I still cannot
> > connect:
>
> In the past few days, mplayerplug-in had stopped working on my two principal
> machines; preliminary diagnosis yielded the same results as you. I doubt the
> firewall explanation because up to a few days ago, this was working well.
> Something in recent updates has caused this, but, I haven't had time to track
> it down.
>

I'm not using mplayer-plugin rather calling mplayer directly from the
command line. In any case, I'm not using the Livna build as I also
find it unstable (read: unusable).

Dotan Cohen

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