[MPlayer-users] Re: Mplayer crashing, streaming from "ASX" xml files

[The Wanderer]

adland wrote:

>>> I've been trying to use mplayer to stream from Windows Media
>>> Player servers, in particular the Norwegian national TV channel
>>> nrk.no.
>>> 
>>> The first link served by the web server is to an XML file
>> 
>> mplayer -playlist http://your.playlist.url
> 
> That works but it would be nice if it went to playlist parsing as a
> last resort if the file specific parsing failed .

It used to, or at least it claimed it did (the behaviour did not seem to
be quite the same as when specifying -playlist). This has I think been
changed, but I forget why.

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       The Wanderer

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