[MPlayer-dev-eng]

[Bertrand Baudet]

On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:18 pm, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > > PS: Anyway playlist demuxing is imho atm a real mess, as they don't
> > > > work locally and only with the network code ...
> > >
> > > argh. you're right...
>
> maybe not.
>
> i've checked again, and it's sth else. see bellow:
> > > it's more interesting that they fail even with the -playlist option:
> > >
> > > Playing [Reference]
> > > File not found: '[Reference]'
> > >
> > >
> > > Playing Ref1=http://195.228.246.70:80/0111/orult.wmv
> > > Unknown protocol: Ref1=http
> > > asf_streaming_start failed
> > > Unable to open URL: Ref1=http://195.228.246.70:80/0111/orult.wmv
> > >
> > >
> > > Exiting... (End of file)
> > >
> > > looks like it didn't recognized asx format and parsed as simple txt
> > > list of urls. or it isn't really asx? afaik asx is xml-style, but this
> > > one more like reminds me of di.fm's *.pl (winamp format?) files.
> >
> > The [Reference] stuff is another format of redirector (not an ASX).
> > I don't think it's handle at all in mplayer, I'll check.
> >
> > Do you have a test URL for this one?
>
> yes
> http://valovilag.adatpark.hu/0111/orult.wmv
>
> if you wget it (or let the browser download it) it'll be a small file:
>
> root at arpi:~# cat orult.wmv
> [Reference]
> Ref1=http://195.228.246.70:80/0111/orult.wmv
> root at arpi:~#
>
> so it's a reference to itself.
>
> if you try 'mplayer http://195.228.246.70:80/0111/orult.wmv'
> then it works (it seems using the mms-over-http protocol)
>
> so the problem is probably the missing parser for that [Reference]-style
> fileformat.

IIRC the [reference] redirector is sent by the server if the user-agent of the
client is not one of windows media player (web browser for example)
And yes it uses ASF/HTTP.


Bertrand