Radio with VLC or MPlayer and a proxy

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Twelc · Post by **Twelc** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:09 pm

Hi

On Windows, I often listen to the radio RFM (all 3 URL work perfectly !) :
(1) mms://viptvr.yacast.fr/tvr_rfm
(2) http://www.tv-radio.com/station/rfm/rfm-20k.asx (redirect to (1))
(3) http://viptvr.yacast.fr/tvr_rfm/.WMA

In the past, when I was not behind a firewall, I simply would do :
mplayer -cache 128 mms://viptvr.yacast.fr/tvr_rfm

However, now, I'm behind a proxy (no choice) and I can't get the radio to work !
I tried using VLC and MPlayer, with the different URL - none of them work.
Here's the result from the terminal

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= VLC: vlc --http-proxy http://wwwcache.sns.york.ac.uk:8080/ http://www.tv-radio.com/station/rfm/rfm-20k.asx

tim@june tim $ vlc --http-proxy http://wwwcache.sns.york.ac.uk:8080/ http://www.tv-radio.com/station/rfm/rfm-20k.asx
VLC media player 0.8.0 Janus
[00000262] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp)
[00000262] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp)
[00000262] access_mms access error: cannot connect to server
[00000262] access_mms access error: cannot connect to viptvr2.yacast.net:80
[00000260] main input error: no suitable access module for `mms://viptvr2.yacast.net/tvr_rfm'

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= VLC: vlc --http-proxy http://wwwcache.sns.york.ac.uk:8080/ http://viptvr.yacast.fr/tvr_rfm/.WMA

tim@june tim $ vlc --http-proxy http://wwwcache.sns.york.ac.uk:8080/ http://viptvr.yacast.fr/tvr_rfm/.WMA
VLC media player 0.8.0 Janus
[00000232] access_http access error: error: HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
[00000232] access_http access error: error: HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
[00000232] access_mms access error: cannot connect to viptvr.yacast.fr:80
[00000230] main input error: no suitable access module for `http://viptvr.yacast.fr/tvr_rfm/.WMA'

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= MPLAYER: mplayer -cache 128 http://www.tv-radio.com/station/rfm/rfm-20k.asx

tim@june tim $ mplayer -cache 128 http://www.tv-radio.com/station/rfm/rfm-20k.asx
[...]
Joue http://www.tv-radio.com/station/rfm/rfm-20k.asx
Resolving wwwcache.sns.york.ac.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wwwcache.sns.york.ac.uk[144.32.128.94]:8080 ...
Resolving wwwcache.sns.york.ac.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wwwcache.sns.york.ac.uk[144.32.128.94]:8080 ...
size_confirm mismatch!: 30835 28271
Error while parsing chunk header
asf_streaming_start failed
Check if this is a playlist which requires -playlist option
Example: mplayer -playlist <url>
Impossible d'ouvrir l'URL: http://www.tv-radio.com/station/rfm/rfm-20k.asx

Sortie... (Fin du fichier)

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= MPLAYER: mplayer -cache 128 http://viptvr.yacast.fr/tvr_rfm/.WMA

tim@june tim $ mplayer -cache 128 http://viptvr.yacast.fr/tvr_rfm/.WMA
[...]
Joue http://viptvr.yacast.fr/tvr_rfm/.WMA
Resolving wwwcache.sns.york.ac.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server wwwcache.sns.york.ac.uk[144.32.128.94]:8080 ...
Server returned 403: Forbidden
Impossible d'ouvrir l'URL: http://viptvr.yacast.fr/tvr_rfm/.WMA
Sortie... (Fin du fichier)

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= MPLAYER: mplayer -cache 128 mms://viptvr.yacast.fr/tvr_rfm

tim@june tim $ mplayer -cache 128 mms://viptvr.yacast.fr/tvr_rfm
[...]
Joue mms://viptvr.yacast.fr/tvr_rfm
Resolving viptvr.yacast.fr for AF_INET...
Connecting to server viptvr.yacast.fr[193.201.103.111]:1755 ...
Connection timeout
Resolving viptvr.yacast.fr for AF_INET...
Connecting to server viptvr.yacast.fr[193.201.103.111]:1755 ...
Connection timeout
asf_streaming_start failed
Check if this is a playlist which requires -playlist option
Example: mplayer -playlist <url>
Impossible d'ouvrir l'URL: mms://viptvr.yacast.fr/tvr_rfm

Sortie... (Fin du fichier)

Any idea how I can get it to work ?

chetan13 · Post by **chetan13** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:43 am

you can try

mplayer http_proxy://proxy_host:port/mms://mms_address

Twelc · Post by **Twelc** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:16 am

Thanks - I might have tried that - can't remember..
Anyway, not in university halls anymore so don't have this problem - maybe in my 4th year if I go back in halls...