[MPlayer-users] MPlayer and ASF Audio Streams

[Gregory D. Horne]

Until November 2003 MPlayer was properly parsing the header of
the ASF audio stream from www.warpradio.com for the radio
station KHYI (www.warpradio.com/popTuner.asp?id=9455).  Then
suddenly MPlayer stopped working.  I investigated as best I
could by running MPlayer from an exterm which produced the
following output:

--
Playing http://www.warpradio.com/popTuner.asp?id=9455
Resolving www.warpradio.com ...
Connecting to server www.warpradio.com[66.28.222.98]:80 ...
Resolving www.warpradio.com ...
Connecting to server www.warpradio.com[66.28.222.98]:80 ...
Connected to server: www.warpradio.com

Playing mms://66.28.222.101/replayradio/replayradio04.wma
Connecting to server 66.28.222.101:80 ...
Stream bitrate properties object
Max bandwidth set to 0
Connecting to server 66.28.222.101:80 ...
Server return 500:Internal Server Error
Failed to parse header
Connecting to server 66.28.222.101:1755 ...
connected
unknown object
file object, packet length = 1567 (1567)
unknown object
unknown object
unknown object
stream object, stream id: 2
unknown object
data object

alert! eof
mmst packet_length = 1567
Cache size set to 64 KBytes
Connected to server: 66.28.222.101
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)

<no audio>
--

I am able to listen to this audio stream using Microsoft
MediaPlayer on Microsoft Windows XP so I know the radio
station is still broadcasting.

I suspect Microsoft Corporation has modified the header with
the release of Microsoft MediaPlayer 9.0 and the server-side
encoding is the source of the problem with MPlayer.

Regards,

Greg

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