[MPlayer-users] Is it possible to use MMS over UDP with Mplayer?

[Nico Sabbi]

Jouni.Lohikoski at iki.fi wrote:

>I have a test URI:
>http://nettitv.mtv3.fi/ssi/bb-testi.asx
>which points to mms://213.192.140.34/webtv/test/test.wmv
>
>This works with 
>mplayer -playlist http://nettitv.mtv3.fi/ssi/bb-testi.asx
>
>But it is using just TCP for MMS. They recommend to use UDP, and in MS
>Windows Mediaplayer UDP can be used as a transport protocol.
>So is it somehow possible to enforce Mplayer to use UDP also?
>
>  
>

mms over udp is not yet implemented in mplayer

>The codec they use is WMV9, so vlc cannot be used, neither
>gstreamer-tools, I guess. And wouldn't right now know if they supported
>MMS over UDP either. Any other viewers/tools to try? 
>
>Just plain MMS-streamer could be used to dump the file to a fifo, and
>then play the stream from the fifo, but is there such a tool available
>for Linux, does anyone know?
>
>  
>

if vlc implements mms over udp you can try to use it to dump the stream 
to a fifo/file
and play the latter with mplayer (look at vlc --sout)
 
 
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