[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] mmst path should not be url-encoded

Roberto Togni r_togni at tiscali.it
Thu Jul 1 23:31:55 CEST 2004


On 2004.06.24 06:32, Ilia wrote:
> Hi, All!
> Recently I faced a problem of playing mmst:// streaming video with
> mplayer
> when file path/name contains spaces. With help of ethereal sniffer I
> discovered, that MS WMP (I used v.8) does not perform standard url
> encoding
> at all, connecting to mmst server. Moreover, the server expects such  
> a
> 
> behaviour and just ignore mplayer's (url-encoded) requests. So,
> url-enconding
> should be disabled, when connecting by mmst://.
> 
> The patch is very simple and small, but I'm not sure about value,  
> that
> 
> asf_mmst_streaming_start function should return when failed to
> allocate
> memory (see comments inside). I've just copied the value from another
> place
> in the function.
> 
> I've made the patch by 'cvs diff -u' as described in
> DOCS/tech/patches.txt.
It works ok for me, and looking at the ethereal dumps Ilia provided  
this is the right thing to do.
So if noone complain i'll commit it after pre5 release (if it's going  
to happen tonight), else i'll apply it tomorrow.

> 
> --
> Ilia.
Ciao,
 Roberto




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