[MPlayer-users] asx file support

Chittaranjan Mandal Chittaranjan.Mandal at cse.iitkgp.dhs.org
Fri Oct 11 11:11:02 CEST 2002


On 11 Oct, Laurent Lacaze wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> the "-playlist" option only works with local files. you should use
> mplayer without any option with http files.

The .asx file is not a html file, so the url invocation does not work.
In this case "mplayer -playlist" does work because the browser downloads
the file and invokes the supplied command with the stored file name as
the argument.
However, configuration will vary from browser to browser.

-Chitta




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