[MPlayer-users] Mplayer on Vista: http handling problem

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El Miércoles, 17 de Junio de 2009 00:14, Barb Sterling escribió:
> I have run into an issue running mplayer (Sherpya-SVN-429280-4.5.0) on
> Vista.
>
> If, from a terminal window on the Vista machine I run
> mplayer c:\inetpub\wwwroot\movie.mp4
>
> The movie plays great.
>
> If, I run
> mplayer http://VistaIISSserverAddr/movie.mp4
> or
> mplayer http://localhost/movie.mp4
>
> It takes minutes for the movie to start playing, but it does eventually
> start playing.  (The movie file is about 30 MB.  If I use a smaller file
> the delay is less.) I get an occasional error message prior to the playback
> starting indicating that the connection has timed out.
>
> If, from an XP machine running the same mplayer executable, I run
> mplayer http://VistaIISServerAddr/movie.mp4
>
> The playback starts almost immediately, there appears to be some
> progressive down loading happening behind the scenes.  Works great.
>
> Also if I put movie.mp4 on the IIS server on my XP machine and access it
> locally, (mplayer http://localhost/movie.mp4), it works fine.
>
> Has anyone else run into this behavior?  If so, what did you do to fix it?

Does -prefer-ipv4 help?

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