[dundee] vsound?

[James Le Cuirot]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:58:39 +0200
"Dan Bolser" <dan.bolser at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, that works fine for the rm, but what about the weird smi that
> nothing but helix will play (I hope I'm wrong) Its under the
> 'bioterorism ram', perhaps too controversial for anyone but a licence
> paying windows person to see...
> 
> rtsp://meetstream.cshl.org:554/AtlasKeynoteGenome01/k/atlas.smi

I don't have Real/Helix Player installed but that plays fine through
mplayer on my Gentoo system as long as I include the -playlist option.
That option (which I think should be automatic!) makes mplayer treat
the given file/URL as a playlist rather than a video itself. That .smi
file simply points to another RealVideo stream.

> It doesn't. I can post more debugging output later (when I am back
> home) - no one on #mplayer could help me make sense of it... seems
> that mplayer has problems with authentication and or it can't play the
> resulting format... I forget the details. I'll post more information
> later. In the mean time I would be interested to know if you can play
> the SMI

For some reason, I took the assumption that HTTP authentication was
being used. It looks like cookies are being used instead. In that case,
login with Firefox/Mozilla and then run mplayer with the -cookies
option. You might also need the -cookies-file option and give the
location of your cookies.txt file.

James