[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: mms port 1755 first?

[adland]

Compn <tempn <at> twmi.rr.com> writes:

> 
> can this be switched in mplayer to try port 1755 (mmst) first?
> port 80 takes a while to timeout on almost every mms stream
> that i play... how about just an option -mmstfirst ?
> 

There are other reasons to change the order as well

mmst: starts playback faster on certain streams.
(at end of cache fillup versus end of stream fetch)
This was found/posted on list last week.

same order used in other players.

I submitted a related patch for consideration today.

Thanks