[MPlayer-users] asx file support

[Chittaranjan Mandal]

On 11 Oct, Laurent Lacaze wrote:
> that's right..
> so, in galeon/mozilla, when you configure extern-app to be launch with
> the mime type, you can set the option to not download the file but
> directly stream it from the server. in this case the "-playlist" option
> is not required.
Sure, except that mplayer does not seem to play a url when the
referenced file is a .asx file.
Atleast, it did not work for me.
Downloading seems to be necessary for .asx files.
I am a complete novice, though.

>> > the "-playlist" option only works with local files. you should use
>> > mplayer without any option with http files.
>> 
>> The .asx file is not a html file, so the url invocation does not work.
>> In this case "mplayer -playlist" does work because the browser downloads
>> the file and invokes the supplied command with the stored file name as
>> the argument.
>> However, configuration will vary from browser to browser.

-Chitta