anyone else with this problem

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 02 October 2008 03:56, David Fox wrote:
> 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. ;(


I've been playing around with getting bloomberg radio to work. Today on 
Kubuntu GG 7.10, and FF  2.0.0.17, I thought I'd have another go.

Tried mplayer -playlist <URL> on the command line, but nothing.

Installed ffmpeg package, and tried the above again. Still nothing.

Installed w32codecs, and tried the above again, and Bingo! I get the stream.

Now that's on the CLI, so I stop that, and the bloomberg site, and audio 
player are still open on Firefox, but the audio player is stopped. Click on 
start on the audio player, and now the stream plays ok.

Konqueror would not play the stream, but since installing the w32codecs, it 
will play the stream, whether selecting xine, or mplayer as the player. 

There's a bit of output from the CLI below, after I'd installed the w32codecs.

djmons at djmons-desktop:~$ mplayer -playlist 
http://www.bloomberg.com/streams/audio/radio_live.asx
MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu13.2+medibuntu1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ (Family: 15, Model: 79, 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[204.179.240.224]: 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
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
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[79.140.81.126]: 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.
==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: mad
Opening audio decoder: [dmo] Win32/DMO decoders
GetOutput r=0x0   size:16384  align:1
StreamCount r=0x0  1  1
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 20.0 kbit/5.67% (ratio: 2500->44100)
Selected audio codec: [wma9spdmo] afm: dmo (Windows Media Audio 9 Speech DMO)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:1683184.6 (467:33:04.6) of 0.0 (unknown)  1.5% 0%

Apologies for CCing you, as I'm not sure if your still reading the thread.

Nigel.