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

[Kevin DeKorte]

Karl,

> 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?

That is exactly what mplayerplug-in does... It tries to see if it can parse 
the playlist and extract out the proper URL's to pass to mplayer. 

NPR, does give it some problems becuase they are passing HTML marked as an ASF 
mimetype (#$%#%). But the hourly news does work with the current plugin.

Kevin
mplayerplug-in developer