how to play online TV program

[Predrag Punosevac]

ronggui wrote:
> I tried to use mplayer to play it, but failed.
>
> [wincent at PC-BSD]mplayer -playlist
> http://citytv.csc.cityu.edu.hk/citytv/channel5/cap5.asx
> MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13,
> Stepping: 6)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> Resolving citytv.csc.cityu.edu.hk for AF_INET6...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: citytv.csc.cityu.edu.hk
> Resolving citytv.csc.cityu.edu.hk for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server citytv.csc.cityu.edu.hk[144.214.108.130]: 80...
> STREAM_ASF, URL: http://citytv.csc.cityu.edu.hk/citytv/channel5/cap5.asx
> Resolving citytv.csc.cityu.edu.hk for AF_INET6...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: citytv.csc.cityu.edu.hk
> Resolving citytv.csc.cityu.edu.hk for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server citytv.csc.cityu.edu.hk[144.214.108.130]: 80...
> size_confirm mismatch!: 30835 28271
> Error while parsing chunk header
> Failed, exiting.
> Resolving citytv.csc.cityu.edu.hk for AF_INET6...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: citytv.csc.cityu.edu.hk
> Resolving citytv.csc.cityu.edu.hk for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server citytv.csc.cityu.edu.hk[144.214.108.130]: 80...
> Cache size set to 320 KBytes
>
> Playing http://netshsvr.cityu.edu.hk/citytv/channel5/cap5.nsc.
> Resolving netshsvr.cityu.edu.hk for AF_INET6...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: netshsvr.cityu.edu.hk
> Resolving netshsvr.cityu.edu.hk for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server netshsvr.cityu.edu.hk[144.214.108.130]: 80...
> STREAM_ASF, URL: http://netshsvr.cityu.edu.hk/citytv/channel5/cap5.nsc
> Resolving netshsvr.cityu.edu.hk for AF_INET6...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: netshsvr.cityu.edu.hk
> Resolving netshsvr.cityu.edu.hk for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server netshsvr.cityu.edu.hk[144.214.108.130]: 80...
> size_confirm mismatch!: 25700 19978
> Error while parsing chunk header
> Failed, exiting.
> Resolving netshsvr.cityu.edu.hk for AF_INET6...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: netshsvr.cityu.edu.hk
> Resolving netshsvr.cityu.edu.hk for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server netshsvr.cityu.edu.hk[144.214.108.130]: 80...
> Cache size set to 320 KBytes
> Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)
>
>
> Exiting... (End of file)
>
>
> Further more, I have enquire that CityTV center, they give me such info
> about the media format as follows:
>
> our CityTV broadcasting service, will only entertain those media players
> which can support/decode the following codec formats for streaming:-
>
> - multimedia data file bears the (asf/asx) file extensions ;
> - streaming formats using in CityTV:
> Video : Microsoft Mpeg- 4 codec V2 [320 x 240, 25fps]
> Audio : Mpeg Layer-3 (16KB/s, 11kHz, mono)
>
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks.
>
>
>   
I watch TV and listen to a radio via Tunapie application. (Over 100 TV 
and over 1000 radio channels).
My default player for Tunapie is MPlayer but I must concede that VLC is 
exceptional and that I have it as well on my system. My default radio 
player for Tunapie is XMMS.