Can't play an mms/asf stream, and VLC stole my shoe...

[djbell]

Can anybody help me play a public stream? It works fine in Windows Medial Player. I've searched for various important-sounding lines in the error output, but I've had no luck finding a solution. Maybe the "*" in the MRL is messing it up?

Here's what I'm trying to play:
mms://rx-wes-sea145.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/live.asf:1
or
mms://rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf
(they're the same thing)



Here's all the dirty output:

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main debug: adding playlist item `mms://rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf' ( mms://rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf ) main debug: creating new input thread main debug: waiting for thread completion main debug: `mms://rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf' gives access `mms' demux `' path `rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf' main debug: creating demux: access='mms' demux='' path='rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf' main debug: looking for access_demux module: 0 candidates main debug: thread 3880 (input) created at priority 1 (src/input/input.c:230) main warning: no access_demux module matched "mms" main debug: creating access 'mms' path='rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf' main debug: looking for access2 module: 5 candidates access_mms debug: waiting for connection... main debug: net: connecting to 'rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com:1755' main debug: looking for network module: 2 candidates ipv4 debug: connection in progress main debug: using network module "ipv4" main debug: unlocking module "ipv4" access_mms debug: connection(tcp) with "rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com:1755" successful access_mms debug: generated guid: babac001-3e7e-a849-0f6e96cb2797da82 access_mms warning: failed to receive command (aborting) access_mms debug: Connection closed access_mms debug: waiting for connection... main debug: net: connecting to 'rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com:1755' main debug: looking for network module: 2 candidates ipv4 debug: connection in progress main debug: using network module "ipv4" main debug: unlocking module "ipv4" access_mms debug: connection(tcp) with "rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com:1755" successful main debug: net: connecting to ':0@10.255.254.2:7000' main debug: looking for network module: 2 candidates main debug: using network module "ipv4" main debug: unlocking module "ipv4" access_mms debug: connection(udp) at "10.255.254.2:7000" successful access_mms debug: generated guid: babac001-b52d-8477-4b13b7656443ab20 access_mms warning: failed to receive command (aborting) access_mms debug: Connection closed access_mms error: cannot connect to server main debug: net: connecting to 'rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com:80' main debug: looking for network module: 2 candidates ipv4 debug: connection in progress main debug: using network module "ipv4" main debug: unlocking module "ipv4"

Thank you!
Daniel

[dionoea]

try mmsh:// instead of mms:// (in VLC)

[Guest]

Looks basically the same, could I be doing something dumb like missing a plugin? Any other insight? Can anyone out there get the stream to play?

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main debug: adding playlist item `mmsh://rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf' ( mmsh://rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf ) access_mms error: failed to read answer vcd debug: trying .cue file: rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.cue access_file warning: cannot stat() file `rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf' (No such file or directory) cdda debug: trying .cue file: rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.cue cdda warning: could not open rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf main warning: no access2 module matching "mmsh" could be loaded main error: no suitable access module for `mmsh://rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf' main debug: thread times: real 0m37.531250s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.000000s main debug: thread 3460 joined (src/input/input.c:386) main debug: creating new input thread main debug: waiting for thread completion main debug: `mmsh://rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf' gives access `mmsh' demux `' path `rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf' main debug: creating demux: access='mmsh' demux='' path='rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf' main debug: looking for access_demux module: 0 candidates main debug: thread 3460 (input) created at priority 1 (src/input/input.c:230) main warning: no access_demux module matched "mmsh" main debug: creating access 'mmsh' path='rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com/farm/*/airam/airam/wmlive/livea.asf' main debug: looking for access2 module: 5 candidates main debug: net: connecting to 'rx-lvl3-pa26.rbn.com:80' main debug: looking for network module: 2 candidates ipv4 debug: connection in progress main debug: using network module "ipv4" main debug: unlocking module "ipv4"

[erbsen]

Both streams are working fine for me.
I have tried VLC 0.8.5-svn-20051123-0000 (Nightly Build) and VLC 0.8.4-test2.

Maybe you should wait some days until the new version is out.


erbsen

[Guest]

Yup, the new version worked great! Patience works as always-- thanks!

[guestBOY]

This may be classic user error, but when I try to access the .asf stream here:
http://ummedia02.rs.itd.umich.edu/miradio
which contains these links:
[Reference]
Ref1=http://ummedia02.rs.itd.umich.edu/miradio?MSWMExt=.asf
Ref2=http://141.213.255.36:80/miradio?MSWMExt=.asf
which normally associate with windows media player, and play as a stream, nothing happens.

Do I:
1. have a protocol association problem in firefox?
(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7)
2. need to strip off the http: and paste the address into vlc with mms:// or mmsh:// (I tried this. Didn't work for me.)?
3. have a problem with the default windows file associations?
(an empty test file "test.asf" is opens vlc by default, so I don' think this is it.)
4. need a new brain?

For the curious, this is the program stream for Michigan (public) Radio, normally found at: http://michiganradio.org/

[guestBOY]

Sorry, I intended to give information about the system/version/hardware I was using when the error occured.

VLC media player 0.8.4 (wxWidgets interface), compiled by videolan@altari.via.ecp.fr
Windows XP sp2, patched as of last wednesday.
On a whitebox amd xp2500+, 512gig ram, Asus motherboard audio (Avance AC97 Audio), etc, etc. (Probably not relevant, eh?)

Note that other kinds of audio streams seem to work just fine.
( http://server7.kawaii-radio.net:9000/listen.pls for example)

Thanks for your time guys!

[guestBOY]

Do I:
...
4. need a new brain?

YES.

Restarting firefox fixed it. My bad. Let's forget this ever happened.