[MPlayer-users] Re: mms fails with >= 1.0pre5 [PATCH to fix]

[David Purton]

David Purton <dcpurton <at> chariot.net.au> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to play this stream:
>     mms://insm55.abc.net.au/wmtencoder/digjazz.wmv
> 

OK, I found what the problem is. Partly I'm impatient :) As noted in my parent
post, mplayer first tries to connect using the ASF/TCP protocol to port 1755,
which is filtered on the remote server. Eventaully it does time out - after 30
seconds (can this be dropped a bit? Waiting 30 secs, is a fair time to have to
wait.)

When this eventaully fails, mplayer falls back to ASF/HTTP - which is good, but
the problem is that in asf_mmst_streaming.c, there is a line like this:

   if( url1->port==0 ) {
       url1->port=1755;
   }
   s = connect2Server( url1->hostname, url1->port, 1);

So when the ASF/TCP connection to 1755 fails for any reason, the port is left at
1755 and mplayer then tries to connect using ASF/HTTP to port 1755 instead of
80, like it should.

You could fix this by doing something like this instead:

   if( url1->port==0 ) {
       s = connect2Server( url1->hostname, 1755, 1);
   }
       s = connect2Server( url1->hostname, url1->port, 1);
   }


Patch is included below, not attached, sorry, I'm posting from gmane. 

Hope this helps,

dc



Index: asf_mmst_streaming.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/libmpdemux/asf_mmst_streaming.c,v
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -r1.25 asf_mmst_streaming.c
--- asf_mmst_streaming.c	 10 Oct 2004 13:00:56 -0000	 1.25
+++ asf_mmst_streaming.c	 20 Nov 2004 02:04:47 -0000
@@ -492,9 +492,10 @@


   if( url1->port==0 ) {
-	url1->port=1755;
+	s = connect2Server( url1->hostname, 1755, 1);
+  }
+	s = connect2Server( url1->hostname, url1->port, 1);
   }
-  s = connect2Server( url1->hostname, url1->port, 1);
   if( s<0 ) {
	   free(path);
	   return s;