[MPlayer-users] mplayer vs mpv

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 02:43:25AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On 11 Jan 2024, at 18:28, Mike Castle <dalgoda+mplayer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 6:34 AM Michael Hawkins
> > <mhawkins.consultant at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> This works fine:
> >> mpv -playlist https://somafm.com/defcon130.pls
> >> 
> >> This does not:
> >> mplayer -playlist https://somafm.com/defcon130.pls
> > 
> > Adding a bunch of '-v's to the command line shows something
> > interesting.
> > 
> > It looks like for http:, mplayer handles the fetch/parsing of
> > the playlist itself.  While, for https:, it hands it off to
> > libavformat/ffmpeg to fetch the playlist.
> 
> Not sure this is quite the right thing, but below patch helps.

Thanks!  I have just tested the patch, it works for me with the URL
Michael Hawkins reported problems with.  I did not test any other URL.

Regards,
Erik