AlienBBC and Mac installation instructions revised .

[Andy Palmer]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for sending me your version of cook.bundle. I have now had
success playing the Radio 2 stream via the terminal but still get some
error messages about codecs.....nevertheless it plays!!

MPlayer dev-CVS-041116-19:27-3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

AltiVec found
CPU: PowerPC
Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file
or directory
Reading config file /Users/myusername/.mplayer/config
Reading /Users/myusername/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/Users/myusername/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
font: can't open file: /Users/myusername/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206
chars)
Using Darwin accurate timing
Can't open input config file /Users/myusername/.mplayer/input.conf: No
such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such
file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing
rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/radio2/live/r2_dsat_g2.ra.
Resolving rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk
Resolving rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk[212.58.224.90]:554 ...
Cache size set to 640 KBytes
Connected to server: rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk
Cache fill: 18.75% (0 bytes) REAL file format detected.
======= WAVE Format =======
Format Tag: 28515 (0x6F63)
Channels: 2
Samplerate: 44100
avg byte/sec: 44100
Block align: 640
bits/sample: 16
cbSize: 26
Unknown extra header dump: [0] [80] [0] [10] [0] [17] [2] [80] [0] [10]
[1] [0] [0] [3] [8] [0] [0] [25] [0] [0] [0] [0] [0] [2] [0] [4]
===========================
demux_real: invalid chunksize! (0)
Clip info:
name: BBC Radio 2
author: BBC
copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation 2004
================================================== ======================
==
Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder
opening shared obj '/Library/Application
Support/ffmpegX/reallib/cook.so.6.0'
Error: dlcompat: file "/Library/Application
Support/ffmpegX/reallib/cook.so.6.0" not found
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec cook.so.6.0.
Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS!
ADecoder preinit failed
ADecoder init failed
Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec cook3260.dll.
Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS!
ADecoder preinit failed
ADecoder init failed
Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder
opening shared obj '/Library/Application
Support/ffmpegX/reallib/cook.bundle/Contents/MacOS/cook'
Audio codec: [23] 44 kbps Stereo Music High Response - RA8
Audio bitrate: 44.100 kbit/s (5513 bps)
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x20), ratio: 5513->176400 (44.1 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [racookmac] afm:realaud (Mac OS X RealAudio COOK)
================================================== ======================
==
Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit ->
44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 44100 hz, big endian signed int
AF_pre: 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Big-Endian)
[AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format Signed 16-bit
(Big-Endian)
AO: [sdl] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Big-Endian) (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit ->
44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
Video: no video
Starting playback...

Andy.

[Daniel Cohen]

On 10/1/05 at 6:36 pm +0000, Andy Palmer wrote
>Hi Daniel,
>
>Thanks for sending me your version of cook.bundle. I have now had
>success playing the Radio 2 stream via the terminal but still get
>some error messages about codecs.....nevertheless it plays!!

Yes, I get the same error messages. They don't matter, essentially
they are just mplayer looking for things that it can't find before
settling on a codec that it can find and can use.

I'll check further, but it looks as though the newer version of the
codec doesn't work, which will make things a hassle. Perhaps others
can do some checking too.

There is a version of the codecs for Mac OS X on
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html
but it provides a package that has to be installed. I don't feel like
doing this myself, as it might damage a system that is currently
working.

I'll write further offlist.
--
Daniel Cohen