[MPlayer-dev-eng] rtmpe support

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:27:57PM -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
> I've written the attached module to let mplayer use rtmpdump's
> librtmp. Unfortunately, I don't see how to pass in the necessary
> options, mplayer.c always calls open_stream() with options==NULL, so
> there doesn't seem to be any way to pass stream options in from the
> command line. Note that just adding options to the main URL would be
> extremely ugly, since RTMP URLs can be pretty long to begin with,
> and typically 2-3 other very long URLs are also needed. E.g., to
> play this movie from Youtube (actually crackle.com) we have to
> supply these URLs:
>   main: rtmpe://cdn-auth.akamai.crackle.com/ondemand/crackle/1/n/sk/6dpvb_306p.mp4
>   swfUrl: http://crackle.com/flash/CracklePlayer.swf?id=2419511&site=219
>   pageUrl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPeNnReBK0A&feature=spotlight
> 
> Any suggestions?

We already have rtmp support via libavformat, do we really need yet another implementation
instead of improving what already exists and all other media players can profit from?