Skeeve - 2006-06-20

First I tried the binary.

Fine so far, but when it comes to real media it fails.

I found several different articels stating I have to copy the codecs to /usr/local/lib/codecs or /usr/local/lib/mplayer

None of both helped.

Then I did a CVS checkout but clicking on "build" in XCode for MPlayer OS X gives the error

Missing file or directory: External_Binaries/preflighter

So the CVS tree seems incomplete.

This is what I call a pain (i.t.a)... :-(

All I wanted to do is to download an unencrypted real media stream.

Having the codecs in /usr/local/lib/mplayer trying to get rtsp://84.233.229.42:554/video/180.rm results in:

MPlayer dev-CVS-0500May-17:40-3.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
AltiVec found
CPU: PowerPC

Playing rtsp://84.233.229.42:554/video/180.rm.
Resolving 84.233.229.42 for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: 84.233.229.42
Connecting to server 84.233.229.42[84.233.229.42]:554 ...
Cache size set to 640 KBytes
Connected to server: 84.233.229.42
rdt chunk not recognized: got 0x4f
rdt chunk not recognized: got 0x2a
Core dumped ;)

Exiting... (End of file)

The file is okay until 1:20 where it is corrupted.

Having the codecs in /usr/local/lib/codecs isn't anything better and gives exactly the same result.