[MPlayer-users] ASF Playlist?

[Mats Rojestal]

Hi,

This is confusing info from Kevin cuurent cvs of mplayer do NOT play 
this URL
the same result as Jan Kutar encontered a signal 11. The mms stream does 
however
work.

Mats R


Kevin DeKorte wrote:

>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:
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>>>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.
>>
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>>
>>>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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