mms:// radio crashes / was: Re: [MPlayer-users] divxa32.acm segfault (NOT a bugreport)

[Georgi Georgiev]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 05:54:44PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> actually it isn't a codec problem but a possible bug or more probably an
> incompatibility of the mms server and mplayer's mms client implementation.
> as the mms:// code is unmaintained (it was ported from xine(??) once long
> time ago, and never worked properly).
> the crash is happening in the asf demuxer, due to seriously broken stream.
> 
> as no one of us is familiar with teh mms:// protocol 9actually it's a secret
> - reverse engineered by some volunteers buti've never seen any docs, just
> the asfrecorder code).
> 
> maybe try to download teh stream using asfrecorder, and check if the
> resulting file is playable with mplayer. if it is, then we have some chance
> to fix it (by comparing mplayer and asfrecorder code).

Does that mean that what mplayer -dumpstream dumps is already broken? I thought
that the mms part is ok since dumpstream works... and that the codec is broken
since it segfaults even when I play the dumped stream.... :-/

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