Bug#808385: mplayer cannot play m3u8

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Control: tags -1 confirmed
Control: severity -1 normal

Hi Jean-Philippe,

On 19.12.2015 13:21, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> I tried a new URL to play a Canadian radio.
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
> This url gives a weird result:
> http://985-lh.akamaihd.net/i/studioaudio_1@393647/master.m3u8
> 
> If I do instead:
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> ##on cré un tube
> date=`date +%F-%H:%M:%S`
> mkfifo /tmp/$date
> 
> 
> 
> ffmpeg -re -i "http://985-lh.akamaihd.net/i/studioaudio_1@393647/master.m3u8" -acodec copy -vcodec copy -f mpegts -y /tmp/$date &
> pid=$!
> 
> It works.
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
> mplayer "jumps" and displays:
> [aac @ 0x7f51bc135540]element type mismatch 1 != 0

These messages appear also with ffplay, which plays this fine, so I guess that's
a problem of the stream.
However, with mplayer the following message appears often:
Using network protocols without global network initialization. Please use avformat_network_init(), this will become mandatory later.

This message always shows when mplayer "jumps", so I guess that this is the
actual problem here.

Best regards,
Andreas