[MPlayer-users] ASF again

[Carsten Menke]

Andrew Holding wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> This might sound really stupid but i copmpletely get why Mplayer 
> doesnt want to support audio only formats (at least as a priority), 
> however, how dificult is it to decode an asf streamed audio?, is it a 
> minor mod to the code (i.e. just pretend theres a 1x1 black image for 
> a video), or a large one.
>
> If its small surely a patch could be made since there is no program to 
> play mms:// audio streams at the moment. If i'm wrong and there is 
> please tell me :) and i'll go away.
>
Yes you're right I think, because of mms:// I have to boot into Windows, 
that's the only reason I have to boot windows, only because
a favorite Radio Station choosed mms Protocol, because it is cheaper 
than RealStream. OK, you could record the stream using
asfrecorder, but I haven even not found a program that can play audio 
asf files, do you ? The next problem is, that I do not get asfrecorder 
to pipe
the stream to STDOUT, it *as the name says* a Recorder only.

So I'm with you on this topic :-)

Carsten