[MPlayer-dev-eng]

[Bertrand Baudet]

On Saturday 11 January 2003 01:04 am, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > PS: Anyway playlist demuxing is imho atm a real mess, as they don't work
> > locally and only with the network code ...
>
> argh. you're right...
> just tested and really, the buggy .asx (and .wmv) urls i got all work from
> the network, but fails from local.
>
> it's more interesting that they fail even with the -playlist option:
>
> Playing [Reference]
> File not found: '[Reference]'
>
>
> Playing Ref1=http://195.228.246.70:80/0111/orult.wmv
> Unknown protocol: Ref1=http
> asf_streaming_start failed
> Unable to open URL: Ref1=http://195.228.246.70:80/0111/orult.wmv
>
>
> Exiting... (End of file)
>
> looks like it didn't recognized asx format and parsed as simple txt list of
> urls. or it isn't really asx? afaik asx is xml-style, but this one more
> like reminds me of di.fm's *.pl (winamp format?) files.

The [Reference] stuff is another format of redirector (not an ASX).
I don't think it's handle at all in mplayer, I'll check.

Do you have a test URL for this one?

> > -	{ "asx", DEMUXER_TYPE_ASF },
> > +	{ "asx", DEMUXER_TYPE_PLAYLIST },
>
> i'm not sure this is ok.
> afair there are badly configured servers with .asx urls but asf content.

This doesn't matter, this list is not used.

> > -extension=NULL;
> > +//extension=NULL;
>
> ah i already forgot this one.
> it was found already few months ago, and turned out to be some debug code,
> but it seems it was not fixed...  or am i wrong?

Yes, this code was for test. I used it to try autoselect a demuxer type based
on the extension. But it turn out to be a bad idea. I kept the code "in case"
of if I need it later on. But I really should comment it out.


Bertrand