[streaming] Re: Trying to emulate VLC streaming in a test equipment,but failing

[Nico Sabbi]

Jean-Paul Saman wrote:

>>
>> FWIW, mplayer can play the stream even from the test equipment
>> but the video quality gets progressively worse. It also can't
>> play the audio which is in mp3 format.
>
>
> VLC uses the specifications and MPLayer doesn't. So when a file can be 
> played with mplayer it doesn't mean the stream is according to 
> specification. Only that mplayer is less stringent.
>

mp3 in mpegts is supposed to be playable.
If you send me a chunk of mplayer -v <stream> I'll give it a look.
Anyway, as you have experienced mplayer is not yet reliable when playing 
countinous network streams

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