[MPlayer-users] German television online services

[Reimar Döffinger]

I have a workaround, but I think it is an Apache server bug,
admittedly in addition to MPlayer not fully parsing the response.
Though it might be an intentional hack on their side...

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 01:43:53PM +0200, Oliver Seitz wrote:
> --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- START ---
> protocol:           [HTTP/1.0]
> http minor version: [0]
> uri:                [(null)]
> method:             [(null)]
> status code:        [200]
> reason phrase:      [OK]
> body size:          [226]

File is 226 bytes large.
With a few -v more:

> Request: [GET /zdf/veryhigh/110703_bra_nor_fwm_spo.asx HTTP/1.0
> Host: wgeostreaming.zdf.de
> User-Agent: MPlayer SVN-r33795-4.2.1
> Icy-MetaData: 1
> Range: bytes=226-
> Connection: close
> 
> ]

We request from byte 226

> --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- START ---
> protocol:           [HTTP/1.0]
> http minor version: [0]
> uri:                [(null)]
> method:             [(null)]
> status code:        [200]
> reason phrase:      [OK]
> body size:          [226]
> Fields:
>  0 - Server: Apache/2.2.4 (Unix)
>  1 - Last-Modified: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:30:03 GMT
>  2 - ETag: "3a2446-e2-4a72f46fb04c0"
>  3 - Accept-Ranges: bytes
>  4 - Content-Length: 226
>  5 - Content-Type: Video/x-ms-asf
>  6 - Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:35:17 GMT
>  7 - Connection: close
> --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- END ---

And once more get the full file instead of nothing/error/whatever.