Problems with European Parliament streams (e.g. http://live.europarl.europa.eu/asx/ext/channel10.asx )
Hello,
the European Parliament has several streams which are not useable by default. The main entry page is http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/de/schedule/live-broadcast and if you want to use an external player you get URLs like this:
http://live.europarl.europa.eu/asx/ext/channel10.asx
(AFAIK only the number of the channel changes) Trying to play this results in:
$ LC_ALL=C vlc -v http://live.europarl.europa.eu/asx/ext/channel10.asx
VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547)
[0xb85138] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0xdb85e8] main playlist: stopping playback
[0xfbfe88] access_mms access error: invalid chunk FATAL (0x413c)
[0xfbfe88] access_mms access error: header size == 0
[0xfab168] main input error: open of `mmsh://live.europarl.europa.eu/asx/ext/channel10.asx?MSWMExt=.asf' failed
[0xbb8788] access_mms access error: cannot connect to 136.173.159.26:80
(mplayer fails here, too)
wget and cat results in:
$ cat channel10.asx
Channel10Trying to play these "reflector" URLs results in:
$ LC_ALL=C vlc -v mms://livewms.europarl.europa.eu/reflector:30173
VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547)
[0x2579138] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0x299a868] main access error: connection failed: Connection refused
[0x299a868] main access error: connection failed: Connection refused
[0x299a868] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp)
[0x299a868] main access error: connection failed: Connection refused
[0x299a868] main access error: connection failed: Connection refused
[0x299a868] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp)
[0x299a868] access_mms access error: cannot connect to server
[0x299a868] access_mms access error: cannot read data 2
[0x29e7878] asf stream warning: unknown asf object (not loaded)
[0x29e7878] asf stream warning: unknown asf object (not loaded)
[0x29d9b18] main stream warning: 0 bytes need to be skipped (access non seekable)
[wmv3 @ 0x29a6520] Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 0
[0x299a868] access_mms access warning: unimplemented query in control
[0x29e0be8] avcodec decoder warning: Physical channel configuration not set : guessing
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer too early (-47135), down-sampling
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: not synchronized (213838 us), resampling
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer too late (167302), up-sampling
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: not synchronized (847631 us), resampling
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (1014933), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (921812), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (828933), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (735812), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (642933), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (549812), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (456933), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (364812), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (271933), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: not synchronized (266444 us), resampling
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (445234), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (352113), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (259234), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: not synchronized (986174 us), resampling
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (1152288), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (1060167), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (967288), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (874167), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (781288), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (688167), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (595288), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (502167), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (409288), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (317167), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (224288), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: not synchronized (499704 us), resampling
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (630849), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (537728), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (444849), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (351728), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (258849), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: not synchronized (1076830 us), resampling
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (1243537), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (1150416), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (1057537), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (964416), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (871537), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (778416), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (685537), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (593416), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (500537), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (407416), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (314537), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (221416), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: not synchronized (1047609 us), resampling
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (1175882), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (1083003), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (989882), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (897003), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (804882), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (712003), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (618882), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (526003), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (432882), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (340003), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: buffer way too late (246882), dropping buffer
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: not synchronized (-185001 us), resampling
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: resampling stopped after 5468287 usec (drift: 30382)
[0x29955c8] main audio output warning: not synchronized (71322 us), resampling
^C[0x299a868] access_mms access error: cannot read data 2
[0x29e7878] asf stream warning: unknown asf object 0x26f18b5d-0x4584-0x47ec-0x9f5f0e651f0452c9
[0x29e7878] asf stream warning: unknown asf object 0x1806d474-0xcadf-0x4509-0xa4ba9aabcb96aae8
(mplayer can play the URL)
After some research the internet (tm);) says the option --mms-all needs to be used and this helps to play this stream. 2 options to solve the problem for best user experience:
- get the initial URL working with VLC (e.g. vlc http://live.europarl.europa.eu/asx/ext/channel10.asx )
- add --mms-all to the default options
Thanks for your work and considering the options to get the streams easier playable for users.
Regards, Noel