Re: mplayer multicast start up behavior

I reversed the parameters and now mplayer outputs repeating setup
messages. So it works but it is not elegant. Thanks for the assist.

Playing udp://239.1.2.3:4567.
STREAM_UDP, URL: udp://239.1.2.3:4567
Timeout! No data from host 239.1.2.3
udp_streaming_start failed
No stream found to handle url udp://239.1.2.3:4567


Playing udp://239.1.2.3:4567.
STREAM_UDP, URL: udp://239.1.2.3:4567
Timeout! No data from host 239.1.2.3
udp_streaming_start failed
No stream found to handle url udp://239.1.2.3:4567


Playing udp://239.1.2.3:4567.
STREAM_UDP, URL: udp://239.1.2.3:4567
Timeout! No data from host 239.1.2.3
udp_streaming_start failed
No stream found to handle url udp://239.1.2.3:4567


Playing udp://239.1.2.3:4567.
STREAM_UDP, URL: udp://239.1.2.3:4567
Timeout! No data from host 239.1.2.3
udp_streaming_start failed
No stream found to handle url udp://239.1.2.3:4567


Playing udp://239.1.2.3:4567.
STREAM_UDP, URL: udp://239.1.2.3:4567
Timeout! No data from host 239.1.2.3
udp_streaming_start failed
No stream found to handle url udp://239.1.2.3:4567


Playing udp://239.1.2.3:4567.
STREAM_UDP, URL: udp://239.1.2.3:4567
Timeout! No data from host 239.1.2.3
udp_streaming_start failed
No stream found to handle url udp://239.1.2.3:4567

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Michael A Hawkins
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On Sun, 2023-12-24 at 15:47 -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2023-12-24 at 14:21, Michael Hawkins wrote:
> 
> > OK, I tried that with: mplayer udp://239.1.2.3:4567 -loop 0
> > 
> > but still no good.
> > 
> > [mhawkins@liberty ~]$ mplayer udp://239.1.2.3:4567 -loop 0
> > MPlayer SVN-r38423-13 (C) 2000-2023 MPlayer Team
> > do_connect: could not connect to socket
> > connect: No such file or directory
> > Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your
> > remote
> > control.
> > 
> > Playing udp://239.1.2.3:4567.
> > STREAM_UDP, URL: udp://239.1.2.3:4567
> > Timeout! No data from host 239.1.2.3
> > udp_streaming_start failed
> > No stream found to handle url udp://239.1.2.3:4567
> > 
> > 
> > Exiting... (End of file)
> 
> Try changing the order of the arguments:
> 
> $ mplayer -loop 0 udp://239.1.2.3:4567
> 
> I haven't run that exact command, but when I try a similar one with a
> different IP address and port, it seems to retry indefinitely. (The
> attempt-and-retry messages flood the terminal where the command was
> run,
> but that's probably to be expected.)
> 
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