[MPlayer-users] Playing videos from tv.freebox.fr

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 06:34:43PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> The French ISP Proxad (aka Free) allows its customers to watch the TV from
> HTTP streams, for example <URL: http://tv.freebox.fr/stream_france2 >. The
> web page it is embedded in uses a plugin with type
> "application/x-vlc-plugin", so these streams are supposed to be playable
> with free software.
> 
> Unfortunately, mplayer is not able to play them: the video is just fine, but
> the sound does not work at all, and even sometimes crashes mplayer. ffplay
> plays just the video, and ignores the sound completely.
> 
> Any help or advice would be appreciated.
> 
> I put a sample file there:
> http://www.normalesup.org/~george/tmp/stream_france2.ts

I know this is an ancient mail, but I stumbled over this by accident.
This format now works both with native and lavf demuxers.