[MPlayer-users] cvs again

[The Wanderer]

Roberto Togni wrote:

> On 2004.07.01 23:12, antoine wrote:
> 
>>> mplayer -playlist 
>>> http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/highspeed/2004/06/av/20040614ngpfloridachimp.asx
> 
> Works wor me. it's very high bandwith, so i don't get a smooth
> playback, but it works.

It does work for me with MPlayer now, but it didn't at noon; the server
was down.

>> it likes gxine though...
> 
> Theat's very strange. try to wget the url to be sure you don't have
> any problem connecting to the server. Do you have any proxy server
> set in gxine?

wget won't help in this instance; it can get you the .asx file, but
that's a playlist, and the .asf file which will be actually played is
available over an mms:// URL which wget doesn't know how to handle.

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