[MPlayer-dev-eng] Playing from URL hangs!

[Erik Brage]

Hi all!

Thanx for an excellent tool!

I successfully compiled 0.90 for Linux/Debian/Stable, (kernel 2.4.18 and
gcc 2.95.4)

It worked fine for most cases, but when I tried to play from Spraydio
(www.spraydio.com) by issuing the command `mplayer 
mms://wmengine.spraydio.com/studio54` (Don't try this unless you like
disco ;-) the current song played alright, but when it had finished (and
the socket closed down) the application was hung.

It also ran at 95% as viewed with top.

Looking into the code (and with gdb) it seemed that in asf_streaming.c, in
the routine asf_http_streaming_read, an infinite loop
was running, and at around line 323 (the while clause) the variable
"waiting" had somehow got the value of -4.

I made a dirty fix telling it to return zero if waiting was <0.
This is probably not the correct way so I restrained myself
from making a patch, probably waiting should never be <0 in the first
place.

It should be easy to reproduce this bug, could of course also be a
problem on the server side!

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Erik Brage

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