anyone else with this problem

Thu Oct 2 01:56:34 UTC 2008

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Paul S <paulatgm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could you point your firefox to bloomberg.com and see if you get the
> error message

I'm not seeing such an error, but I'm not able to connect to the
"radio" section. It brings up a popup window, starts to do its
buffering - it seems that mplayer is going to play the content, as it
should, and most all other sites work that let me connect via
mplayerplugin. The "buffering" seems to be going slowly, as I have a
fast connection. Then it says "connected" although there is no audio
coming out of the speakers, then it (soon) goes into another buffering
step, then says "stopped".

Cutting and pasting the URL that comes up when the listen to radio
popup comes up is a better way to check to see if mplayer can actually
play the content, if there's a network connection problem or something
else that is inhibiting the playback.

Ultimately, this looks like there is a missing codec. I had to alter
the url of the referrer and then add -playlist to get something out of
mplayer: And if you look carefully, you can actually find the correct
stream URL that it is trying to access, it is quite well hidden. ;(

dfox at newbox:~$ mplayer -playlist
http://www.bloomberg.com/streams/audio/radio_live.asx
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ (Family: 15,
Model: 107, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Resolving www.bloomberg.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.bloomberg.com
Resolving www.bloomberg.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.bloomberg.com[204.179.240.180]: 80...
STREAM_ASF, URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/streams/audio/radio_live.asx
Resolving www.bloomberg.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.bloomberg.com
Resolving www.bloomberg.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.bloomberg.com[204.179.240.180]: 80...
size_confirm mismatch!: 22611 20047
Error while parsing chunk header
Failed, exiting.
Resolving www.bloomberg.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.bloomberg.com
Resolving www.bloomberg.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.bloomberg.com[204.179.240.180]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing mms://a1531.l2489849876.c24898.n.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1531/24898/v0001/reflector:49876.
STREAM_ASF, URL:
mms://a1531.l2489849876.c24898.n.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1531/24898/v0001/reflector:49876
Resolving a1531.l2489849876.c24898.n.lm.akamaistream.net for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6:
a1531.l2489849876.c24898.n.lm.akamaistream.net
Resolving a1531.l2489849876.c24898.n.lm.akamaistream.net for AF_INET...
Connecting to server
a1531.l2489849876.c24898.n.lm.akamaistream.net[69.22.138.159]: 1755...
Connected
unknown object
file object, packet length = 1119 (1119)
unknown object
stream object, stream ID: 1
unknown object
unknown object
data object
mmst packet_length = 1119
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill: 17.50% (57344 bytes)
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: mad
Requested audio codec family [wma9spdmo] (afm=dmo) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested audio codec family [wma9spdshow] (afm=dshow) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Cannot find codec for audio format 0xA.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
Audio: no sound
Video: no video

Playing mms://a1042.l2489851244.c24898.n.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1042/24898/v0001/reflector:51244.
STREAM_ASF, URL:
mms://a1042.l2489851244.c24898.n.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1042/24898/v0001/reflector:51244
Resolving a1042.l2489851244.c24898.n.lm.akamaistream.net for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6:
a1042.l2489851244.c24898.n.lm.akamaistream.net
Resolving a1042.l2489851244.c24898.n.lm.akamaistream.net for AF_INET...
Connecting to server
a1042.l2489851244.c24898.n.lm.akamaistream.net[69.22.138.164]: 1755...
Connected
unknown object
file object, packet length = 1119 (1119)
unknown object
stream object, stream ID: 1
unknown object
unknown object
data object
mmst packet_length = 1119
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill: 17.50% (57344 bytes)
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: mad
Requested audio codec family [wma9spdmo] (afm=dmo) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested audio codec family [wma9spdshow] (afm=dshow) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Cannot find codec for audio format 0xA.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
Audio: no sound
Video: no video

Playing mms://media2.bloomberg.com/wbbr_us.asf.
STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://media2.bloomberg.com/wbbr_us.asf
Resolving media2.bloomberg.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: media2.bloomberg.com
Resolving media2.bloomberg.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server media2.bloomberg.com[69.191.210.18]: 1755...
Connected
unknown object
file object, packet length = 1119 (1119)
unknown object
stream object, stream ID: 1
unknown object
unknown object
data object
mmst packet_length = 1119
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill: 17.50% (57344 bytes)
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: mad
Requested audio codec family [wma9spdmo] (afm=dmo) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested audio codec family [wma9spdshow] (afm=dshow) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Cannot find codec for audio format 0xA.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
Audio: no sound
Video: no video

Exiting... (End of file)

So it is dshow something or other, ASX audio - and I have all
available codecs (w32 & w64codecs) installed. No go on this one,
though. It looks like something that's only available with windows
media player version 9.

And, I have the medibuntu version of mplayer installed.

mplayer:
  Installed: 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu13+medibuntu1
  Candidate: 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu13+medibuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu13+medibuntu1 0
        500 http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/non-free Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu13 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages