[MPlayer-users] Re: mencoder fails to follow asx links

Alban Bedel albeu at free.fr
Wed Jul 2 07:51:11 CEST 2003


Hi Bernhard Rosenkraenzer,

on Tue, 1 Jul 2003 23:02:00 +0200 (CEST) you wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] Hi,
> I just noticed that mencoder (unlike mplayer) doesn't follow asx links.
> 
> e.g.
> mplayer -vo xv -ao alsa9
> http://www.researchchannel.org/webcast/asx/rtv-lan.asx
> works
> 
> mencoder -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o test.avi
> http://www.researchchannel.org/webcast/asx/rtv-lan.asx
> fails
> 
> But looking up the URL inside the asx and running mencoder on that (e.g.
> mencoder -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o test.avi
> 'mms://media-wm.cac.washington.edu/ResearchTV Live (LAN)' works
> 
> I don't presume that's intentional?
Yes. The playlist is not part of mencoder, so no 'redirection'.
	Albeu


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