[MPlayer-dev-eng] MMS support in mplayer begun

[Bertrand Baudet]

On Saturday 08 December 2001 03:50 am, you wrote:
> > As for the initial connection for MMST, I'm having to send the 01
> > command (as per the MMS specs from the SDP web site).   Once that is
> > sent, I'm having to immediately read the server response back in.
>
> So, I
>
> > have to somehow parse the server's response to see if it was
>
> successful.
>
> > I do know in the server response, if the player version is too low,
> > there will be an URL to download the appropriate win32 DLLs. Should
> > asf_mmst_streaming_start() just return -1 if that does happen?
>
> Afaik,
>
> MPLAYER 6.4.09.1120 is the latest one (I'm on my brother's Win XP
> machine and thats what it shows if I run "mplayer2") - so it's safe to
> return this version number.
>
> > there is no mechanism to automatically install win32 codecs, no?
>
> On WMP 6.4/7.0/7.1/8.0 its always accessing codecs.microsoft.com port
> 80 to download the codec from there (like an ActiveX) and install it.
> You can bypass it by going directly to the site above, download the
> codec, unzip it, and register it to mplayer's fake registry.
>
> If you want to do a simple test then do this: checkout a CVS snapshot
> of wine, and download Windows Media 6.4 from MS web site:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia/ and select the 6.4. Install it
> on wine with --winver win98 and run Ethereal to see whats its doing.
> Try to access most of the direct .asx links in windowsmedia.com to see
> where he's getting the codecs (installing codecs is not yet supported
> on wine CVS).

Yes, that's a good idea.
I might do that once I fixed the asf streaming stuff.

Bertrand


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