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Re: [MPlayer-users] How to force a bandwidth limit to MMS streams?


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Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] How to force a bandwidth limit to MMS streams?
From: Jeffrey Malone <ieatlint@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:42:37 -0800
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>From the mplayer man-page:

-bandwidth <value> (network only)
 Specify  the  maximum  bandwidth  for network streaming (for servers that are
 able to send content in different bitrates).  Useful if  you  want  to  watch
 live streamed media behind a slow connection.

This is from mplayer 1.0pre5.

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:18:23 +0100, Thomas Kuiper <tkuiper@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm happy that I can watch some TV MMS/WMV streams with mplayer
> and my ISP. However they stream with diffrent stream bandwidths which
> are embeded in the same stream and mplayer always chooses the stream
> which is the fastest 250 K (my bandwidth is only 130K max). The -bandwith
> switch doesn't work. Putting a large "-cache" just takes too much time and
> easily looses sync after a short time.
> 
> When I connect to the stream its announcing the diffrent streams.
> How can I pick one? -sid/-vid/-aid doesn't seem to work. Of course
> I know they are only for subtitle etc but I tried them all :)
> Is there anything else I missed?
> 
> Little output of a connect to the stream:
> 
> mplayer -v 
> "mms://pluton.club-internet.fr/cnn?transactionID=1115394917&login=tkuiper&produitID=5"
> 
> [...]
> 
> Trying ASF/TCP...
> Resolving pluton.club-internet.fr for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server pluton.club-internet.fr[194.158.114.36]:1755 ...
> connected
> 
> file object, packet length = 16000 (16000)
> unknown object
> stream object, stream id: 1
> stream object, stream id: 2
> stream object, stream id: 3
> stream object, stream id: 4
> unknown object
> unknown object
> unknown object
> data object
> mmst packet_length = 16000
> Cache size set to 64 KBytes
> Connected to server: pluton.club-internet.fr
> CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0  pre:0  eof:0
> Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    ASF file format detected.
> ============ ASF Stream group == START ===
>  object size = 50
>  stream count=[0x4][4]
>    stream id=[0x1][1]
>    max bitrate=[0x102b1][66225]
>    stream id=[0x2][2]
>    max bitrate=[0xe6b49][944969]
>    stream id=[0x3][3]
>    max bitrate=[0x9d769][644969]
>    stream id=[0x4][4]
>    max bitrate=[0x4b6e9][308969]
> ============ ASF Stream group == END ===
> ASF: packets: -1  flags: 9  max_packet_size: 16000  min_packet_size: 16000  
> max_bitrate: 1965132  preroll: 5000
> 
> ... Then it plays but stucks. I can register it without trouble using
> "mmsclient".
> 
> How can I pick one of those "ASF Stream group"? I suppose its the thing
> I'm looking for...
> 
> Thomas
> 
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