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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:27:26PM +0200, Ruben Garcia wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
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> Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >On Thursday, 17 July 2003, ?????? wrote:
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> >>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >>mmst://61.144.56.212/vod1/cinema/jhd/030713/????????.wmv?str=
> >>ae8fe56beaab262b7eefa2438408a347
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> >>Above a url cann't played by mplayer. 
> >>But windows media can do it. why ?
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> >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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> Yes, but the ietf changed the standard some time ago. I remember a lot 
> of noise about people trying to buy the new domain www.españa.com some 
> time ago.

That's a completely different issue -- dns, not url!

Rich