[FFmpeg-user] Live mmsh stream -> "mmsh://96.35.129.141:5000/STLTV_Live?MSWMExt=.asf: Invalid data found when processing input"

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Dan M <dan <at> streemit.net> writes:

> I'm trying to suck in the live stream at 
> http://www.stltv.net/live_vbrick.asx. When I load that 
> stream in VLC and examine the stream info I am presented 
> with a location of 
> mmsh://96.35.129.141:5000/STLTV_Live?MSWMExt=.asf
> 
> When I try "ffprobe mmsh://96.35.129.141:5000/STLTV_Live?MSWMExt=.asf" 
> or same result without the question mark and the stuff after it, I get :

I opened ticket #2356, thank you for the report!

> dan <at> dan-Aspire-4730Z:~$ ffplay 
> "mmsh://96.35.129.141:5000/STLTV_Live?MSWMExt=.asf"
> avplay version 0.8.1-4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1, 
> Copyright (c) 2003-2011 the Libav developers

While this is unrelated to your problem, please 
note that what you tested is not FFmpeg but one of 
various forks, this one is particularly buggy, please 
see http://ffmpeg.org/download.html for supported 
versions (0.10 is quite old).

Carl Eugen