[Live-devel] unable to play stream, unexpected "Stream EOF detected" error

[Ross Finlayson]

At 02:06 PM 1/9/05, you wrote:
>Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live.com> wrote:
>
>>>I'm trying to play the following stream using mplayer.
>>>
>>>rtsp://data1.russiantvonline.com/smils/eralash.smil
>>>
>>>But it immediately reports "Stream EOF detected" and stops. VLC behaves 
>>>similarly.
>>>At the same time, this stream is perfectly played by RealPlayer.
>>>
>>>So it seems to be a bug in live.com streaming software.
>>
>>No, there's no 'bug'.  The problem is that the stream uses SMIL, which 
>>the LIVE.COM RTSP client software does not support.
>
>Is there any chance to get SMIL support in the LIVE.COM RTSP client?

Yes, certainly - if someone is interested in paying for this. (See 
<http://www.live.com/liveMedia/faq.html#support>)


	Ross Finlayson
	LIVE.COM
	<http://www.live.com/>