how to play online TV program

[ronggui]

Unfortunately, both vlc and mplayer don't capable of. Is it due to he nsc
format which seems encrypted?


2007/10/5, Predrag Punosevac <punosevac at math.arizona.edu>:
>
> 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.
>



-- 
Ronggui Huang

Department of Sociology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Department of Public and Social Administration, CityU, HK