playing streaming audio with mplayer

[Andrew Elmore]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:33:14PM -0800, Kevin Smith wrote:
> I try to open a streaming audio url with mplayer and I get the message:
> 
> Playing http://kcrw.com/smil/music.ram.
> Resolving kcrw.com for AF_INET6...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: kcrw.com
> Resolving kcrw.com for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server kcrw.com[66.186.18.67]:80 ...
> Cache size set to 320 KBytes
> Connected to server: kcrw.com
> Cache fill:  0.01% (35 bytes)
> 
> and it never plays...does anyone know what is up ?


Try the '-playlist' option to mplayer -- that made the difference for
me.

regards,
Andrew