Radio streaming

[Saurabh Bathe]

arunbkn at aol.in wrote:
>   Sorry for straching this too long, but after loading codecs from the 
> given link, I am getting the following output, but no radio ...........
> 
> [arun at itqs-arun ~]$ mplayer "mms://ac1.streaming.net.nz/tarana1"
> MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 7)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote 
> control.
> 
> Playing mms://ac1.streaming.net.nz/tarana1.
> STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://ac1.streaming.net.nz/tarana1
> Resolving ac1.streaming.net.nz for AF_INET6...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: ac1.streaming.net.nz
> Resolving ac1.streaming.net.nz for AF_INET...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET: ac1.streaming.net.nz
> Failed, exiting.
> Resolving ac1.streaming.net.nz for AF_INET6...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: ac1.streaming.net.nz
> Resolving ac1.streaming.net.nz for AF_INET...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET: ac1.streaming.net.nz

The above line seems to be the problem. Looks like somehow DNS 
resolution is not working for mplayer.

What is the output of:
dig  ac1.streaming.net.nz

You can try if this works:
mplayer mms://202.7.7.90/tarana1


HTH
Saurabh