[MPlayer-users] -dumpstream on ASF/WMA is real-time only. Can it be accelerated?

[Colin Rosenthal]

On 2010-05-30 17:26, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 08:10:49AM -0700, Alun Jones wrote:
>    
>> Please let me know if there's anything I'm doing wrong, if this is a
>> fundamental limit set at the server, or something else entirely.
>>      
> Something in-between. MMS is indeed designed to only produce data
> in realtime, however there seem to be some tricks to convince it to
> do it faster. However MPlayer does not use these tricks, and actually
> I don't even know nay details how they work (I think something like telling
> the server that the client is still trying to buffer).
>    

I'm not sure I get this "protocol rollover" business. If the bbc mms:// 
links are actually
rolling over to rtsp then why is it still not possible to download at 
faster than realtime?
How do I find out what protocol the url is actually rolling over to anyway?

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Colin Rosenthal