[mythtv-users] Problem playing RealMedia stream in mplayer

[Phill Edwards]

I'm trying to play some RealMedia streams on my MythTV box in mplayer.
This used to work on my previous FC installation but I recently moved
to Centos 5.1 and I'm not sure if I've managed to play any ot these
streams since the upgrade, or whether something has recently changed
at the stream provider's end (ABC Australia).

I've installed mplayer essential codecs in /usr/local/lib/codecs and
/usr/local/lib/win32 but still no joy. The error I'm getting is:

Playing rtsp://media1.abc.net.au/reallibrary/news/200802/20080212-yahoo-am1_16_9_bband
rm.
Resolving media1.abc.net.au for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: media1.abc.net.au
Resolving media1.abc.net.au for AF_INET...
Connecting to server media1.abc.net.au[202.6.74.108]: 554...
Cache size set to 512 KBytes
Cache fill: 18.75% (98304 bytes)
REAL file format detected.
Stream description: video/x-pn-multirate-realvideo logical stream
Stream mimetype: video/x-pn-realvideo
[real] Video stream found, -vid 0
Stream description: audio/x-pn-multirate-realaudio logical stream
Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio
[real] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [RV30]  400x224  24bpp  25.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 name: 20080212-yahoo-am1
 author: News Video
 copyright: Copyright 2008 Australian Broadcasting Corp
xscreensaver_disable: xscreensaver wid=6291462.
Opening video filter: [expand w=424 h=290]
Expand: 424 x 290, -1 ; -1, osd: 0, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Error: /usr/lib/codecs/drvc.so: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or direct
ory
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: drvc.so, /usr/lib/codecs/drvc.so,
/usr/lib/win32/drv
c.so, /usr/local/lib/win32/drvc.so
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.so.
Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: drvc.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/drvc.dll,
/usr/lib/win32/d
rvc.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/drvc.dll
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.dll.VDecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30335652.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!

Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!

Does anyone know what I need to do to be able to play this in mplayer
or is it just that ABC might be using a new Real codec that isn't
supported yet? Or could I play it with MythVideo somehow?

My command for playing the stream is:
$ mplayer -af volume=-11:0 -cache 512 -vo xv -xy 2 -stop-xscreensaver
-osdlevel 3 -vf expand=424:290::::: -playlist
20080212-yahoo-am1_16_9_bband.rm.m3u

The playlist file contains the URL to the stream.

Regards,
Phill