[MPlayer-users] Cannot play MediaPlayer9 stream in MPlayer

[Jake Benilov]

I'm running XP.
I don't know whether there is DRM or not. How would I find this out? 
What is a sure way to find out whether a link is DRMed or not?

On 5/19/05, Kichigai Mentat <kichigai at comcast.net> wrote:
> On May 18, 2005, at 17.59, Jake Benilov wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > MPlayer is amazing, and i'm 99% happy with it in every case.
> > However...
> >
> > I have an internet radio station to which I wish to listen to:
> > http://ms2.capitalinteractive.co.uk/xfm_low
> >
> > when I open that link in Media Player 9 (Windows), or open a webpage
> > with the link embedded in it (see HTML below), everything connects
> > fine.
> > However trying to access that link with MPlayer only yields a 403
> > Forbidden error.
> > Why is this? What is mplayer not doing to connect, that MP9 can do?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jake Benilov
> >
> Well, first there's some stuff you could easily tell us. First, do
> you know if this is a DRM'd file? And are you on an OS X system? Both
> of those situations mean no MPlayer compatibility.
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > <object id="MediaPlayer"
> > classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
> > codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/
> > nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,5,715"
> > standby="Loading Microsoft(r) Windows(r) Media Player components..."
> > type="application/x-oleobject" width="460" height="18">
> >                <param name="AnimationatStart" value="false">
> >                <param name="FileName"
> > value="http://ms2.capitalinteractive.co.uk/xfm_low">
> >                <param name="TransparentatStart" value="true">
> >
> >                <param name="AutoStart" value="true">
> >                <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="true">
> >                <param name="ShowControls" value="true">
> >                <param name="ShowDisplay" value="true">
> >          <embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
> >                pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/
> > windowsmedia/en/download/default.asp"
> >                src="http://ms2.capitalinteractive.co.uk/xfm_low"
> >                name="MediaPlayer" showcontrols="0" showstatusbar="1"
> > showtracker="0" autostart="1" width="460" height="18"
> > border="0"></embed>
> >        </object>
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
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