[MPlayer-users] ASF Playlist?

[Kevin DeKorte]

The current CVS of mplayerplug-in plays the url quite well. The reason is that 
mplayerplug-in recognizes that the parent URL is a reference file and 
extracts the MMS stream out and passes the mms stream to mplayer for playing.

Actually, mplayerplug-in can recognize and play some reference files that 
mplayer itself cannot play since it does attempt to parse reference files.

Kevin

On Friday 20 February 2004 09:05 pm, Jan Knutar wrote:
> > I hit the link NOS Journaal and our Mediascreen pops up, right after
> > I allowed it to do so in Firebird. In the videoscreen I've got the
> > nice blue words 'Mplayerplug-in' but no downloading or buffering.
> > Well, at least not more then 2030 bytes or so :-(
>
> http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/tv/nos/journaal/bb.laatste.asf
> is a playlist. The web server says it's video/x-ms-wmp. Whether this is
> relevant or not, I don't know.
>
> Trying to run mplayer cvs as of 12 hours ago with that URL as parameter
> results in a signal 11, whoppee..
>
> The .asf above is actually plaintext, and has the following link in it:
> mms://streams6.omroep.nl/wm/tv/nos/journaal/bb.laatste.asf
>
> Which seems to play, even without win32 binary codec packs.
>
> I don't use mplayerplug-in, so I can't comment on that, but I suspect if
> mplayer cvs isn't able to play that URL directly, then mplayerplug-in
> will crash too. This crash might not be present in the version you are
> using though.
>
> > I tried to play the url directly with Mplayer, but then i've got the
> > error message:
> > "LMLM4 Stream Format not found"
>
> Which is not relevant. It's just one demuxer out of many telling you
> that the file isn't LMLM4, whatever that is. When quoting mplayer
> output, it's best to quote the whole output, and not just parts of it.
>
> What about trying to play the URL that the playlist .asf poitns to? does
> that work for you?
>
> I hope my reply is atleast slightly more helpful than the flames I
> imagine some will fire off at you. Hope you have a good asbestos suit!
>
> :)
>
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