Bug 63485

Summary:	mplayer fails to play URLs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	postmodern <brodigan>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project <media-video>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description postmodern 2004-09-09 17:10:52 UTC

mplayer 1.0_pre4-r7, 1.0_pre5-r2 and 1.0_pre5-r4 fails to play URLs. The problem is fixed in the current CVS of mplayer.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. mplayer http://mirror.fluendo.com:8800/
Actual Results:  
Playing http://mirror.fluendo.com:8800/.
Option stream url: This URL doesn't have a port part.
Option stream url: This URL doesn't have a hostname part.
[file] No filename
Failed to open http://mirror.fluendo.com:8800/

Expected Results:  
mplayer attempts to decode the theora stream.

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-amd64-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r1,
2.6.8.1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8.1 x86_64 4
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-pipe -O3"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa amd64 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt encode esd flac
foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww matrox mikmod
motif mpeg multilib ncurses nls nogcj oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png
python quicktime readline sdl slang speex spell ssl tcpd theora truetype xml2
xmms xprint xv zlib"

Comment 1 Chris White (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-09 19:57:37 UTC

need network USE  flag.  einfo says so as does the 3 bug reports
already posted on the situation.

Comment 2 postmodern 2004-09-09 23:44:40 UTC

Out of the spirt of correctness, the network use flag should be expanded or contracted. It seems like playing URLs in mplayer should be enabled by default, much like viewing non-local URLs in a web browser.