Re: trouble playing streaming video

[Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl>]

Steve Kleene:
> Camaleón:
> > Mmm, try with this:
> >
> > mplayer -wid 0x1201a26 -vf scale=640:-3 -osdlevel 1 -nojoystick \
> >   -noconsolecontrols -cookies -softvol -slave -user-agent NSPlayer \
> >   -nomouseinput -cache 512 mms://70.61.148.132/WXOD/WCT%2018120.WMV?
> > MSWMExt=.asf
> >
> > Note the use of "mms://" protocol instead "http://";; one.
> 
> Thanks, but that didn't work either. [...] However, I then got lots
> of errors, some of which follow:
> 
>   [MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
>   [VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory.
>   s3fb: can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
>   [swscaler @ 0x8790df8]using unscaled yuv420p -> yuv420p special converter
>   X11 error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>   X11 error: BadGC (invalid GC parameter)
>   X11 error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)

I, too, get exactly these errors. But I do get it playing without the
options:

    mplayer mms://70.61.148.132/WXOD/WCT%2018120.WMV?MSWMExt=.asf

So you could try to find out which option causes the problem.