Streaming Quicktime

[Dotan Cohen]

I am trying to stream a Quicktime movie on Kubuntu 10.10, but both VLC
and Mplayer fail:

$ uname -a
Linux ecd 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 01:41:57 UTC 2010
i686 GNU/Linux
$ vlc
rtsp://streaming.learningfriends.com:554/streaming.learningfriends.com/Rescue_on_Fractalus_High.mov
VLC media player 1.1.4 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x9cbe254] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use
'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to sigaction(17, 0xb75340d4, 0xb7534048)
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No
such file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/dotancohen/.config/ibus/bus
Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
[0xa0bdc8c] live555 demux error: Nothing to play for
rtsp://streaming.learningfriends.com:554/streaming.learningfriends.com/Rescue_on_Fractalus_High.mov
[0xa0bc314] main input error: open of
`rtsp://streaming.learningfriends.com:554/streaming.learningfriends.com/Rescue_on_Fractalus_High.mov'
failed: (null)

$ mplayer
rtsp://streaming.learningfriends.com:554/streaming.learningfriends.com/Rescue_on_Fractalus_High.mov
MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
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
rtsp://streaming.learningfriends.com:554/streaming.learningfriends.com/Rescue_on_Fractalus_High.mov.
Resolving streaming.learningfriends.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: streaming.learningfriends.com
Resolving streaming.learningfriends.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server streaming.learningfriends.com[69.163.221.149]: 554...
A single media stream only is supported atm.
rtsp_session: unsupported RTSP server. Server type is 'DSS/5.5.5
(Build/489.16; Platform/Linux; Release/Darwin; state/beta; )'.
STREAM_LIVE555, URL:
rtsp://streaming.learningfriends.com:554/streaming.learningfriends.com/Rescue_on_Fractalus_High.mov
Stream not seekable!
 file format detected.
Failed to initiate "audio/X-QDM" RTP subsession: RTP payload format
unknown or not supported
Failed to initiate "video/X-SV3V-ES" RTP subsession: RTP payload format
unknown or not supported
Exiting... (End of file)
$


It seems that I may be missing a codec. I do have libquicktime1
installed, must I install anything else? Thanks!

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