[MPlayer-users] mplayer cann't play the url but window media can ...

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 17 July 2003, ?????? wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> mmst://61.144.56.212/vod1/cinema/jhd/030713/????????.wmv?str=
> ae8fe56beaab262b7eefa2438408a347
> 
> Above a url cann't played by mplayer. 
> But windows media can do it. why ?

Probably because it has non-printable (at least with my charset) characters
in it. AFAIK you're not allowed to use any non-ascii characters in URLs.
But MS - as usual - doesn't follow standards.

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