[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAC 2005 streaming: please test!

[Joern Nettingsmeier]

Christoph Eckert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
>>there is one video (un chien andalou by salvador dali) and
>>one audio stream (the jazz tune "melancia" played by a
>>friend of mine) streamed in two different bitrates each.
> 
> 
> cool.
> 
> 
> I can hear audio for all streams, but I get no video at all 
> using VLC 0.8 on my Gentoo box.
> 
> Kaffeine tells me 'contacting http server... 0%' and does 
> nothing else.

i've seen that before, it had to do with the initial burst settings on 
the server... but other people have confirmed vlc to work, so maybe 
you're using a different version.

if you have curl and theora-tools, could you try

	curl <url> | theora123

in an xterm?