[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] http1 to ingore DEMUXER_TYPE_ASF unconditionally

[Zuxy]

MPlayer is a universal media player; it can just guess out the file
format even if the extension is ambiguous or wrong; with proper codecs
installed it can play virtually all the video/audio format in the
world; it corrects corrupted index and subtitles when possible. It
just works with minimum effort from users. I hope it can do the same
for various network streaming protocols.

2005/10/15, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>:
> Hi,
>
> IMO only those that no sane setup would use for normal http.

Half the sites are administrated by a below-average webmaster...just a
joke:-) But indeed, there exist such servers where "normal" media
files are transmitted over HTTP/0.9, and there are bunch of client
softwares that support this!

>
> Well, the question is when is this needed? If you start mplayer by hand
> on an URL you will probably know when it is mms and can use mms://.
> If it's used via e.g. mplayer-plugin, IMHO this one should do the
> detection stuff - it can use multithreading to speed up detection of
> what kind of server it is.

Well firstly most people don't the typing thing; they simply click or
copy&paste, and secondly mplayer-plugin is less portable than mplayer
itself.

> Currently MPlayer takes over a second
> for every connection attempt it makes, at least for me.
>

For me it's quicker:-) IMHO three seconds before playing is far more
better than exiting without playing anything. And IIRC although the
old network API only need connect once for an asf stream, we've moved
to the new API which might be slower (connect twice for an asf
stream), but more complete.

And nevertheless if you and others insist that speed be more
important, I can work that way.

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