[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] of asf_mmst_streaming to only receive the resquested streams

[Reimar =?UTF8?Q?D=F6ffinger?=]

Hi,
> > From my experience with mms-over-http I can say that this will probably
> > cause many servers to treat it as invalid and always stream the lowest-bitrate
> > streams.
> > Not sending anything for the unwanted streams worked much better...
> 
> In this case, it would be nice to add a command line option
> "-send-unwanted-channels" to be used when you don't want the server
> to send everything.

I think there is a misunderstanding. The patch sets a flag to 0x2 for unwanted streams (saying something like "request to disable that stream"). From my experience many servers do not treat this correctly.
Instead of sending "request to disable that stream" nothing should be sent to the server for these IMHO.

> (Apparently it should make happy other users:
> http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2004-November/049640.html )

I didn't actually test, but I am almost certain it won't fix that problem.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger