[MPlayer-users] Re: Re: mplayer crashes when playing radio stream

[Bryan Alton]

cga2000 wrote:

> Thus spake Bryan Alton on Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:50:10PM +0100 or
> thereabouts: <balton at eircom.net> [2006-05-06 16:52]:
>> The SMIL file has lots of streams before the actual stream
>> - one of which seems to be a video. My recent CVS Mplayer
>> didn't crash on my SuSe system
> 
> .. commercials.. this radio station is a front-end for some online
> store that sells music - CD's.. sure glad to get rid of that..!
> 
>> 
>> It plays just with mplayer - no need for -playlist.
> 
> .. indeed it does :-/
> 
> no idea why I had -playlist in my command.. tells you how ignorant I am
> of such matters.

You need the playist option before an URL which references files 
which are playlists (!) such as SMIL, ASX and pls.  
These are all text files which have a specific
format.  

To find the real URL I usually just use wget on the URL if 
it ends with ASX, SMIL, pls and sometimes RAM to download 
a copy onto my system.  I then look at the file and usually
the last URL is the one to play.

You can use google to find the specs for ASX and SMIL files - they
are in XML but are english enough that you can get the 
sense without delving into specs.