[MPlayer-users] playing .asx playlists

[Sander Plas]

Hi all,

I'm having trouble playing an online radio station that uses an .asx. 
playlist.

http://talpa-asx.streaming.is.nl/streaming.asp?P=40013&Q=HQ is an .asx 
playlist with as content:

<Asx Version = "3.0" >
<Entry ClientSkip = "YES" >
<TITLE>Radio 10</TITLE>
<COPYRIGHT>©2008 Radio 10</COPYRIGHT>
<AUTHOR>Powered by IS Interned Services BV</AUTHOR>
<Ref href = "http://talpa10.streaming.is.nl/40013-HQ"/>
<Ref href = "mms://talpa10.streaming.is.nl/40013-HQ"/>
<Ref href = "http://talpa06.streaming.is.nl/40013-HQ"/>
<Ref href = "mms://talpa06.streaming.is.nl/40013-HQ"/>
<Ref href = "http://talpa07.streaming.is.nl/40013-HQ"/>
<Ref href = "mms://talpa07.streaming.is.nl/40013-HQ"/>
<Ref href = "http://talpa11.streaming.is.nl/40013-HQ"/>
<Ref href = "mms://talpa11.streaming.is.nl/40013-HQ"/>
<Ref href = "http://talpa08.streaming.is.nl/40013-HQ"/>
<Ref href = "mms://talpa08.streaming.is.nl/40013-HQ"/>
<Ref href = "http://talpa05.streaming.is.nl/40013-HQ"/>
<Ref href = "mms://talpa05.streaming.is.nl/40013-HQ"/>
</Entry>
</Asx>

When i open this ASX in Windows Media Player, it quickly finds out that 
the first two entries are unavailable (probably simply because the 
server is down) and then starts playing the third one.

MPlayer however seems to stop processing the whole playlist as soon as 
it finds out that the first URL is down. Is this a bug or am i doing 
something wrong?

I guess the "right" behaviour would be what Microsoft does since it's 
their file format?

MPlayer output:

oele at pregonda:~/svn/mplayer$ ./mplayer -playlist 
"http://talpa-asx.streaming.is.nl/streaming.asp?P=40013&Q=HQ"
MPlayer dev-SVN-r26026-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
Resolving talpa-asx.streaming.is.nl for AF_INET...
Connecting to server talpa-asx.streaming.is.nl[82.201.100.37]: 80...
STREAM_ASF, URL: http://talpa-asx.streaming.is.nl/streaming.asp?P=40013&Q=HQ
Resolving talpa-asx.streaming.is.nl for AF_INET...
Connecting to server talpa-asx.streaming.is.nl[82.201.100.37]: 80...
size_confirm mismatch!: 30835 28271
Error while parsing chunk header
Failed, exiting.
Resolving talpa-asx.streaming.is.nl for AF_INET...
Connecting to server talpa-asx.streaming.is.nl[82.201.100.37]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes

Playing http://talpa10.streaming.is.nl/40013-HQ.
Resolving talpa10.streaming.is.nl for AF_INET...
Connecting to server talpa10.streaming.is.nl[82.201.100.21]: 80...
connect error: Connection refused
STREAM_ASF, URL: http://talpa10.streaming.is.nl/40013-HQ
Resolving talpa10.streaming.is.nl for AF_INET...
Connecting to server talpa10.streaming.is.nl[82.201.100.21]: 80...
connect error: Connection refused
Failed, exiting.
Resolving talpa10.streaming.is.nl for AF_INET...
Connecting to server talpa10.streaming.is.nl[82.201.100.21]: 80...
connect error: Connection refused
No stream found to handle url http://talpa10.streaming.is.nl/40013-HQ


Exiting... (End of file)


-- 
Sander Plas