[MPlayer-users] Re: Bugreport

[Dik Takken]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Stephen Fegan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've see this happen on a few streams that I've tried to play, you can see
> in the output of mplayer that it is trying to play the URL...
>
> mms://media.omroep.nl/kro/russen/russen_20030912_waanzininhetgeloof_afl2_video_high.wmv
>
> Sometimes you have to change the "mms" to "mmst" for mplayer to play it,
> so try:
>
> mplayer -cache 8192 mmst://media.omroep.nl/kro/russen/russen_20030912_waanzininhetgeloof_afl2_video_high.wmv
>
> I don't know enough about the streaming protocol to know what the
> difference is or why it works (for me at least!).

Many, many thanks for your help! It works now! I only need to figure out a
way to select which substream to play. It seems to pick the first one,
with the lowest bitrate. Using -bitrate does not seem to work..

Thanks!

Dik

> Steve
>
> > I encountered a bug while attempting to play the WMV stream from http://
> > www.kro.nl/russen/videoaudio/116211ASXBB.asx. The play-buffer isn't
> > filled and mplayer keeps waiting forever. Xine plays this URL without problems.
> > Notmal WMV files also play OK with MPlayer. The command used and output
> > are below:
>
> etc..
>
>


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