[SWLUG] S4C use of wmv

[Peter Bradley]

Ysgrifennodd Pete Phillips:
> <snip />
> If you want to download the stream to your machine, do this:
>
> mplayer -dumpstream "mms://s4c.unique-media.tv/s4c_uk/bsm/hsbc_jazz_aberhonddu___catrin_finch_ai0000803d21b8.wmv?sami=http://www.s4c.co.uk/sami/A290559874.smi"
>
>   

Hmm.  No.  It just seems to hang after loads of error messages similar 
to my previous and then this:

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Playing 
mms://s4c.unique-media.tv/s4c_uk/bsm/hsbc_jazz_aberhonddu___catrin_finch_ai0000803d21b8.wmv?sami=http://www.s4c.co.uk/sami/A290559874.smi.
STREAM_ASF, URL: 
mms://s4c.unique-media.tv/s4c_uk/bsm/hsbc_jazz_aberhonddu___catrin_finch_ai0000803d21b8.wmv?sami=http://www.s4c.co.uk/sami/A290559874.smi
Resolving s4c.unique-media.tv for AF_INET...
Connecting to server s4c.unique-media.tv[74.53.143.210]: 1755...
Connected
file object, packet length = 4850 (4850)
unknown object
unknown object
unknown object
stream object, stream ID: 1
stream object, stream ID: 2
unknown object
data object
mmst packet_length = 4850
Cache size set to 64 KBytes
Stream not seekable!

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Still, if it works for you, it's obviously OK - just not on my system.  
Catrin Finch will just have to wait.

:)


Peter