[MPlayer-dev-eng] Demuxer type for http streams

[Nico Sabbi]

Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:

>On Saturday 16 September 2006 01:47, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
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>>Hello,
>>
>>On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 01:35:23AM +0400, Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:
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>>>On Thursday 14 September 2006 11:10, Nico Sabbi wrote:
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>>>>>-	{ "application/octet-stream", DEMUXER_TYPE_ASF },
>>>>>+	{ "application/octet-stream", DEMUXER_TYPE_UNKNOWN },
>>>>>	// Playlists
>>>>>	{ "video/x-ms-wmx", DEMUXER_TYPE_PLAYLIST },
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>I agree 100%
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>>>>
>>>Applied.
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>>>
>>This was changed AFAIK just a few months ago to make some ASFs play
>>correctly, now we've come round trip. I'd be quite unhappy if in another
>>six months it would be changed back again and so forth instead of
>>finally getting a real solution (and I admit I don't even know what
>>exactly the problem was though I think there was a bugzilla entry).
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>Yes, in r17658. I don't know what has changed since then, but ASF streams with 
>application/octet-stream mime type are played just fine through 
>autodetection.
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>

octet-stream indicates quite clearly that the content type isn't known 
in advance,
so forcing the demuxer type sounds total nonsense to me