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I found some public streams to test with (both “static” and live) and they work, so there must be something fishy with the stream coming from our Wowza media server. The stream will even freeze ffplay compiled with rtmplib support. If anyone has a clue as to what this could be…

I think problems with the rtmp stream can be ruled out, because VLC will play if I do rtmpdump -v -r … > file.flv [ctrl-C after a few seconds] cat file.flv | vlc - Here is the output of `rtmpdump -v -r … | cvlc -vvv -`: http://pastebin.com/WKtk6e3D This is with rtmpdump being killed after a while fr...

For a live stream you need to use the rtmpdump -v parameter:

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rtmpdump -v -r "rtmp://some.rtmp.url" | vlc -

I tried that, doesn't change anything.

I am trying to play an RTMP audio stream ‘live’ (with minimal delay) through a version of VLC (1.1.3) that was installed through a package that was compiled without librtmp support. I want to avoid having to install a ‘custom’ VLC, therefore I had hoped to solve this through rtmpdump. I read numerou...

When using a USB 5.1 sound card with VLC, I noticed that the relative channel levels are different between movies, making calibration of the surround set-up a pain. If I calibrate the set-up with an equal-volume-on-all-channels test sound, it does sound correct for a certain share of movies. For oth...