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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:38:20PM +0100, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:06:42PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> >
> > Yes, but normally is you use -playlist you're giving mplayer a text
> > file you wrote yourself or at least read, not a random file you
> > downloaded off kazaa or some crap.
> 
> Except of course when you try to use mplayer with the mplayerplug-in in
> any web browser. In that case, you'll be served playlists and genuine
> media files in an unholy mix, never able to know beforehand what a file
> contains (especially because not all web servers tag the file with
> correct mime-types).
> 
> So, if I read this thread correctly, there is no easy fix for mplayer
> that allows it to work with mplayerplug-in. 
> 
> Obviously, mplayerplug-in cannot call mplayer with -playlist as the
> default argument, since mplayer then, as previously pointed out, hangs if
> it's served a (large) non-playlist file.
> 
> What would the suggested fix be? To have mplayerplug-in download a
> suitable chunk of the file, apply heuristics to it, then invoke mplayer
> with -playlist if it believes the file is indeed a playlist?

The suggested fix would be to make MPlayer optionally fallback to
playlist. If you want this feature, send a patch to -dev-eng list.

Rich