problems with mplayer

[Howard Howell]

Hi, everyone,
    For some reason my mplayer stuff has reverted to not working.
    For example, go to:
http://tracking.military.com/cgi-bin/outlog.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages%
2Emilitary%2Ecom%2FAudio%2FFTED50%2Emp3%3FESRC%3Dnavy%
2Enl&code=070129WNVH06&eml=ddb8efb55e7cf67504811758fd348d3f

And what I get is the the progress bar, a tab opens up, the run button
appears depressed and then the message "getting playlist" appears,
followed quickly by what seems to be the site name (can't read it all),
and then the word stopped and nothing ever appears.  The stop button is
shown as depressed when the stop occurs.

I don't get any error messages on screen.  Which logs should I look at?
and have any of you experienced this or cured it?

Regards,
Les H

[Mauriat M]

On 2/1/07, Les  wrote:
>     I don't get any error messages on screen.  Which logs should I look at?
>
> and have any of you experienced this or cured it?

To see if it is a problem with mplayer, try this on the terminal:
# mplayer "http://tracking.military.com/cgi-bin/outlog.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages%2Emi..."
(all 1 line with the URL wrapped in quotes).

If mplayer can't play it, you should see some error.

-Mauriat

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 18:47 -0500, Mauriat Miranda wrote:
> On 2/1/07, Les  wrote:
> >     I don't get any error messages on screen.  Which logs should I look at?
> >
> > and have any of you experienced this or cured it?
>
> To see if it is a problem with mplayer, try this on the terminal:
> # mplayer "http://tracking.military.com/cgi-bin/outlog.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages%2Emi..."
> (all 1 line with the URL wrapped in quotes).
>
> If mplayer can't play it, you should see some error.
>
> -Mauriat

I don't know what playing it proves but it is an interesting interview.

[Tim]

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 12:33 -0800, Les wrote:
> I don't get any error messages on screen.

I'd try running it from the command line (mplayer followed by any needed
options then the URI), and see what you get, that way.  Possibly also
trying downloading the file, and playing it that way.