Thank you for the response Tommy.  Actually, this wasn't the only problem I
had after upgrading to Karmic.  Firefox kept crashing.  I reported this bug
and got a message asking me to report it using apport.  When I did that I
got an error message telling me to upgrade tzdata.  When I did that I fried
my hard drive.  Currently the affected pc won't boot up.  I'm going to have
to use the Karmic disc to attempt to retrieve my files.  I have another
desktop running Karmic which is also buggy.  Ultimately, I think my solution
to the problem is to do a fresh install of 10.04 from a disc, butn in the
meantime I'm travelling for 6 months, so I won't be doing anything until
June.  Karmic was not a success from my point of view.

2010/1/28 Tommy Trussell <email address hidden>

> Hi -- I just saw your reported bug about mplayer and I tried opening the
> url in a terminal as you specified:
>
> $ mplayer
> rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk:554/radio4fmcoyopa/radio_4_fm_-_tuesday_1656.ra
>
> and it works on my machine. (Funny -- I was looking at bugs like yours
> because mplayer crashes on this machine when I click the icon. But now I
> believe I know why.)
>
> There are other packages that are installed at the same time as mplayer
> that could have caused the crash. I would suggest you might try
> reinstalling mplayer and/or make sure it has what it needs to decode
> RealAudio streams.
>
> I briefly had the Medibuntu repository on this system and it could be
> that an updated package came from there. You might have a look at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu and see if you want to try
> using it.
>
> (By the way, the earlier comments about your bug report were because you
> accidentally collected data for the terminal program itself and not the
> mplayer program. If you open mplayer and use System Monitor you can find
> the process ID of mplayer while it is running. Then you can use apport-
> bug <ID> to collect the data from mplayer. Some Ubuntu-supported apps
> include a "Report a Problem" item in the Help menu that does the
> collection in one step, but neither mplayer nor gnome-mplayer does.)
>
> --
> player won't play bbc radio listen again programmes
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501196
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “mplayer” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
>
> This problem only applies to BBC iplayer radio "listen again" programmes,
> for a user outside the uk. The player opens up but after a minute or so a
> message states that the content does not seem to be working -- try again
> later.  Attempting to open stream in terminal produces following result:
>
> jane@Hardy:~$ mplayer  rtsp://
> rmv8.bbc.net.uk:554/radio4fmcoyopa/radio_4_fm_-_tuesday_1656.ra
> MPlayer SVN-r29237-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
> 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 rtsp://
> rmv8.bbc.net.uk:554/radio4fmcoyopa/radio_4_fm_-_tuesday_1656.ra.
> Resolving rmv8.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET6...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: rmv8.bbc.net.uk
> Resolving rmv8.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET...
> Connecting to server rmv8.bbc.net.uk[212.58.252.8]: 554...
> librtsp: server responds: ''
> librtsp: server responds: ''
> rtsp: read error.
>
>
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 13 in module: open_stream
> - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
>  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
>  gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
>  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't
> and
>  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible
> bug.
>  [ This binary of MPlayer in Debian is currently compiled with
>   '--enable-debug'; the debugging symbols are in the package
>   'mplayer-dbg'.]
> jane@Hardy:~$
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Mon Dec 28 20:00:44 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
> Package: gnome-terminal 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
>  PATH=(custom, user)
>  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
> SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686
>
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