[MPlayer-dev-eng] 1.0rc3 release

[Francesco Cosoleto]

2009/4/1 Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>:
> Guiltless? They serve two different things at the same URL,
> distinguishing by the user-agent and use http:// in the playlist instead
> of any of the more correct mss:// mmsh:// or mmshttp:// (not sure if WMP
> supports all of those, but at least one should work), at the very least
> it is a completely broken configuration, and I don't think they can even
> blame that on Microsoft...

Have you seen ever "[reference]" playlist with MMS schemes?

>> A temporary patch that solves the problem putting "NSPlayer" (already
>> used for MMS) as user-agent if protocol is HTTP and URL ends with ".wmv"
>> or ".asf" would be welcome?
>
> That would only work by chance though, the parameter string can contain
> anything...

It's even possible that the easiest patch works in all the possible cases.

> Note that it would also be easier to convince if someone can find other
> servers with the same issue, any code would be too much for one server
> on the whole internet, so to say...

It isn't so rare and also silly replacing "mms://" with "http://" will
reproduce the problem with many sites (MSN Video, for example).

Francesco Cosoleto