Distro hopping again: freespire

[Tim]

Robin Laing:
>> Have you tried to play mms streams with mplayer and the CLI?


Dotan Cohen:
> Thank, Robin. mPlayer is my preferred player and I did try to use it.
> This is the output:
> [dotancohen at localhost ~]$ mplayer
> mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Solid-Mech1/Solid%20Mechanics%201%20-01.wmv
> MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7200  @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6,
> Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> 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: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
> 
> Playing mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Solid-Mech1/Solid%20Mechanics%201%20-01.wmv.
> STREAM_ASF, URL:
> mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Solid-Mech1/Solid%20Mechanics%201%20-01.wmv
> Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET6...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: video9.technion.ac.il
> Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server video9.technion.ac.il[132.68.1.27]: 1755...
> connection timeout
> Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET6...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: video9.technion.ac.il
> Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server video9.technion.ac.il[132.68.1.27]: 80...
> 
> It seems as though it cannot find the server, however Windows Media
> Player 11 in VMWare loads and displays that video just fine. There is
> no AU sniffing at the server, I checked that with the university's
> computer department.

I just tried it here, and got basically the same thing:

[tim at bigblack ~]$ mplayer mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Solid-Mech1/Solid%20Mechanics%201%20-01.wmv
MPlayer SVN-r235MPlayer SVN-r23545 rpm.livna.org (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz (Family: 15, Model: 1, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

Playing mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Solid-Mech1/Solid%20Mechanics%201%20-01.wmv.
STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Solid-Mech1/Solid%20Mechanics%201%20-01.wmv
Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: video9.technion.ac.il
Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET...
Connecting to server video9.technion.ac.il[132.68.1.27]: 1755...
connection timeout
Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: video9.technion.ac.il
Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET...
Connecting to server video9.technion.ac.il[132.68.1.27]: 80...
connection timeout
Failed, exiting.
Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: video9.technion.ac.il
Resolving video9.technion.ac.il for AF_INET...
Connecting to server video9.technion.ac.il[132.68.1.27]: 80...
connection timeout
No stream found to handle url mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Solid-Mech1/Solid%20Mechanics%201%20-01.wmv


Exiting... (End of file)

You can see that it, at first, couldn't find an IP for the domain name
(an IPv6 address, I'm guessing by the "AF_INET6" comment), then did (an
IPv4 one).  Then, tried connecting to the same server, using different
ports.  Eventually aborting claiming there was no stream at that
address.

VLC did something similar, though the timeouts were *much* shorter
before it gave up on each one.

[tim at bigblack ~]$ vlc mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Solid-Mech1/Solid%20Mechanics%201%20-01.wmv
VLC media player 0.8.6c Janus
[00000324] main access error: Connection to video9.technion.ac.il port 1755 failed: Connection timed out
[00000324] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp)
[00000324] main access error: Connection to video9.technion.ac.il port 1755 failed: Connection timed out
[00000324] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp)
[00000324] access_mms access error: cannot connect to server
[00000324] main access error: Connection to video9.technion.ac.il port 80 failed: Connection timed out
[00000324] access_mms access error: cannot connect to video9.technion.ac.il:80
[00000334] main access error: Connection to video9.technion.ac.il port 1755 failed: Connection timed out
[00000334] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp)
[00000334] main access error: Connection to video9.technion.ac.il port 1755 failed: Connection timed out
[00000334] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp)
[00000334] access_mms access error: cannot connect to server
[00000334] main access error: Connection to video9.technion.ac.il port 80 failed: Connection timed out
[00000334] access_mms access error: cannot connect to video9.technion.ac.il:80
[00000321] main input error: no suitable access module for `mms://video9.technion.ac.il/Courses/Solid-Mech1/Solid%20Mechanics%201%20-01.wmv'
[00000312] main playlist: nothing to play
[00000312] main playlist: stopping playback

I wonder if whether the server is overloaded and Windows media player
waits a bit longer before aborting.  How long does it take for you to
get it to work with the Windows player?

And is it using the same URI?

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