[MPlayer-users] Any developer here ??? (was:Issues with multipart mms/http streams for WMV9 media)

[Christian Tsotras]

Hi, everybody.

Looks like this list is only for easy problems solved amongst mplayer users. 
No developers here.


Is there a developer here that can at least aknowledge that mplayer can't or 
won't never be able to read multipart WMV9 streaming ?

  [Details of the problem here below in quoted line.]


Is there another mailing list about mplayer bugs ?
Is it the right place to ask my question ?

Thanks for any answer. Any.


On Tuesday 19 September 2006 07:56, Christian Tsotras wrote:
> On Saturday 16 September 2006 01:35, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> > Christian Tsotras wrote:
> > > Looks like WMV9 mplayer's plugin is not compatible with Microsoft's
> > > proprietary protocol.
> > > No possibility to solve this ?
> >
> > Let me make this more clear, as I looked at it as a problem with
> > mplayerplug-in...
> >
> > I believe what Christian is saying is that mplayer has issues with
> > multipart mms/http streams for WMV9 media.
>
> Yes, this is precisely the problem.
> And I have it when I use mplayer directly, not mplayerplug-in.
>
>
> Unfortunately, no developer seems interested in this issue ...
> If I can't find any solution in this mailing list, how could I find
> elsewhere ?
>
> By the way, here is your detailed explanation, for future reference:
> > The following command
> > mplayer http://wms1.earthcam.com/times?MSWMExt=.asf
> >
> > Which if retrieve via http is a reference file to itself
> > [Reference]
> > Ref1=http://wms1.earthcam.com/times?MSWMExt=.asf
> > Ref2=http://65.200.140.51:80/times?MSWMExt=.asf
> >
> > The second one is the same media.
> > Even switching the url to an mms form does not change the results.
> >
> > Plays the splash logo just fine (as does mplayerplug-in). But I believe
> > Christian states that after this logo, a real time stream should occur.
> > (I don't have Windows so I can't check). Mplayer does not appear to
> > recognize this secondary stream and so therefore the media is failing.
> >
> > I took a look at the parent site, and I am interested to see the path to
> > that media file, perhaps there is some javascript or some other garbage
> > that is telling it to switch streams.
> >
> > This appears to be the website where it came from
> > http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/index.php?cam=streaming
> >
> > And while it a flash/javascript/Windows Media player mess,
> > mplayerplug-in appears to be getting the right url to play.
>
> Thanks for any help.

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