[MPlayer-users] Streaming videof (MS)

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Hmm, that won't work very well since the helper is supposed to figure it out <G>!  I'm glad it's not just me.  It appears (to me) that gmplayer is not getting the link sent to it.

On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 21:29:56 -0500
Bob Lockie <bjlockie at lockie.ca> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> 
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >More testing.  I set Mozilla 1.2.1 up with a helper application for mime type vides/x-ms-asf (which is what this URL is) and told it to execute gmplayer for this.
> >
> >Gmplayer opens but I get a "This file format is not recognized error" and the gmplayer display shows 00-channel2-14 [00:00:00] scrolling by.  Evidently gmplayer did not get the correct url (below) given to it.  
> >
> >Is this a Mozilla problem in that it did not give gmplayer the correct url or is something else happening?  If it's a Mozilla problem how 
> >
> >do I set it up to do this - does anyone know?
> >
> 
> When I give mplayer "mms://66.178.131.60/KXL" it works but I get the 
> same problem for the asx file that contains the following and was 
> referred to earlier.
> 
> <asx version = "3.0">
>   <title>NewsRadio 750 KXL</title>
>   <entry>
>     <ref href = "mms://66.178.131.60/KXL"/>
>   </entry>
> </asx>
> 
> 

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Brett I. Holcomb