Re: Unable to play mms streams with xine.

I demand that Erik P. Olsen may or may not have written...

> On 08/01/10 21:09, Darren Salt wrote:
>> I demand that Erik P. Olsen may or may not have written...
>>> When I try to play an audio stream which is mms encoded gxine connects
>>> correctly to the mms server but as soon as xine starts decoding the mms
>>> stream it fails with the laconic message: No input plugin was found.
>> URL?

> mmsh://drcluster.jay.net/dr1?wmcontentbitrate=300000

That goes through a proxy here; I'm seeing '504 Gateway timeout'.

> And this same MRL works fine from fedora 10 (running F12 now).

Hmm.

>> Also, running with -vvv may provide some clue.

> The last part of it follows. Does this tell you something?
[snip]
> xine: found input plugin  : mms streaming input plugin
> Resolving host 'drcluster.jay.net' at port '80'
> xine-lib: error: The xine engine failed to start.: No input plugin was
found.
> Maybe the file does not exist or cannot be accessed, or there is an error
in the 
> URL.
> xine: input plugin cannot open MRL 
> [mmsh://drcluster.jay.net/dr1?wmcontentbitrate=300000]
[snip]

Nothing useful there :-|

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