Re: Playing DASH streams / .mpd files
Martin Simmons <[email protected]>
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>>>>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 10:52:03 +0100, Erik Auerswald said: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 10:15:58AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote: > > On 17 March 2021 09:53:22 CET, Dave Woodfall <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On 16/03/21 22:01, > > >Reimar Döffinger <[email protected]> put forth the proposition: > > >> On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 06:23:21AM +0000, Dave Woodfall wrote: > > >> > How does one play a DASH stream in mplayer? > > >> > > > >> >https://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/dash/nonuk/dash_low/aks/bbc_radio_four_extra.mpd > > >> I've not had time to actually test, but I think it should just work > > >> if you link against a separately built FFmpeg instead of MPlayer's > > >> own copy. > > >> The problem is that with the built-in FFmpeg copy we disable the DASH > > >> demuxer because it would create a dependency on libxml2. > > > > > >That would explain why ffplay works then, and why I couldn't get any > > > -lavfdopts or other flags to make mplayer play any streams, although > > >I have very limited knowledge of ffmpeg flags and what they all do. > > > > > >Is there a problem with linking to libxml2? My copy of (a recent svn > > > + ffmpeg from git) mplayer seems to link to it: > > > > > >ldd =mplayer | grep xml > > >libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2 (0x00007f3f32630000) > > > > Huh, that seems strange. > > It's not a very nice dependency and DASH is fairly rare, so I probably > > would have rather avoided it, though mostly I thought we did not have > > a configure check for libxml2, adding those is always a pain. > > Just for information, MPlayer in Debian/Ubuntu (at least one version) > links against libxml2 as well: > > $ /usr/bin/mplayer | head -n1 > MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-7 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team > $ ldd /usr/bin/mplayer | grep xml > libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2 (0x00007fe643aa9000) It is also a dependency on CentOS 7.9.2009, indirectly from libblueray: $ /usr/bin/mplayer | head -n1 MPlayer SVN-r37391-4.8.3 (C) 2000-2015 MPlayer Team $ env LD_DEBUG=files ldd /usr/bin/mplayer 2>&1 | grep -i libxml 6026: file=libxml2.so.2 [0]; needed by /lib64/libbluray.so.1 [0] 6026: file=libxml2.so.2 [0]; generating link map libxml2.so.2 => /lib64/libxml2.so.2 (0x00007f0b7ad84000) __Martin _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users