Re: [xine-user] Internetstreaming

[Siggi L. <si...@us...>]

Hi Emil,

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, ewajacobs wrote:

> Hi, I'm using Xine for some time now and I was wondering why Xine isn't
> very good at internet streaming...

That depends on a lot of factors:

> I just installed the realplayer packet and it actually played an
> internet stream! However, the sound was too fast (factor 10 too fast at
> least) and the video-output is not 100% sharp, more like 80 or 85%.
> I've not managed yet to plat an internetradio stream which is using the
> .asx format.
> Who has some more insight in this?

Most likely, you have hit a version of RealVideo or WMV that's too new for
xine to support natively.
Installing win32 DLLs may help in that case.
If you give us some MRLs of the actual stream, we can verify this.

The version of xine-lib (and xine-ui) is also important.
You should be using something recent, such as xine-lib 1-rc3a and xine-ui
0.9.23.

If so, try to run

xine --bug-report=MRL

(replacing "MRL" with the actuall stream you want to play) and send us the
resulting BUG-REPORT.TXT! This should contain helpful debugging
information.

Cheers,
	Siggi