[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] incorrect handling of streaming video URL

[Reza Roboubi]

Kevin DeKorte wrote:
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> Reza Roboubi wrote:
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>>Thank you so much for the great plugin.
>>
>>The video at the top of this page is not handled properly.  The video
>>starts
>>at the beginning of the entire news hour, rather than seeking to the
>>specified story:
>>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/latin_america/jan-june01/colombiadrug_03-02.html#
>>
>>
>>It would be great to find out what's going on.
>>
>>Reza.
> 
> 
> Reza,
> 
> mplayer does not appear to support seeking within an mms stream. So
> mplayerplug-in can't do any work arounds for this...
> 
> ASX Contents
> 
> 
> <ASX version = "3.0">
> <Entry>
>   <StartTime Value = "00:33:25.00" />
>   <Duration Value = "00:09:58.28" />
>   <Ref href =
> "mms://wm.z1.mii-streaming.net/media/pbs/windows/general/windows/newshour/pbsnh030201_220k.asf"
> />
> </Entry>
> </ASX>
> 
> 
> which would need an mplayer command line like this
> 
> mplayer -ss 00:33:25
> "mms://wm.z1.mii-streaming.net/media/pbs/windows/general/windows/newshour/pbsnh030201_220k.asf"
> 
> Which does not work, because mplayer reports that the stream is not
> seekable.
> 
> Sorry
> 
> Kevin
 > [...]

Thank you very much for your response Kevin.  I'm cross posting this to the
mplayer development mailing list, in order to ask the good people over there:

- what are some of the technical issues involved in dealing with mms stream seeking?

- and specifically, how may one attempt to modify the mplayer source code in order
to add such support?

I'm cross posting to the mplayer-users list, because I'm also curious about possible
alternative ways to accomplish this (mms stream seeking.)

I hope this cross posting isn't inappropriate.  Otherwise, please let me know.

Thank you so much.

Reza.