[MPlayer-users] asx file support

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 10 October 2002, Chittaranjan Mandal wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> $mplayer -vo x11 ppc1.asx
> ...
> Playing ppc1.asx
> Cache fill:  0.00% (138 bytes)    ============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported =============
> === If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author! ===
> 
> 
> Exiting... (End of file)
> 
> 
> $ cat ppc1.asx
> <asx version = "3.0">
>   <title>ppc1</title>
>   <entry>
>     <ref href = "mms://10.35.32.91/ppcd-1/PPC-2/ppc1.wmv"/>
>   </entry>
> </asx>
> 
> The wmv file can be played directly.

Try
mplayer -playlist ppc1.asx

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