[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] http streaming issues

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 25 June 2008 at 08:23, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've discovered a couple problems with http streaming in mplayer, and wrote 
> two patches that fix them:
> 
> 1) Some web servers don't provide a way to seek within a file (example:
> Nokia N-series phones),

Nokia phone is a web server?

> because "Accept-range" http header is absent. MP3
> playback code however tries to seek to the end of the file to read some
> tags. This fails and all kinds of breakage follows. 730_mp3-streaming.diff
> makes mplayer only do the seeking if the stream allows it.

Sounds sensible.

> 2) ASF streaming code relies on having first few bytes of the stream body
> available when it parses the http headers, however it only ensures that the
> entire http header is available when reading from a socket, and doesn't
> ensure that the beginning of the body is available as well. Some web
> servers, such as Windows Media Player in Windows Vista,

Windows Media _Player_ is a web server??

> send the headers
> and the body in separate TCP packets, so the body isn't read at all and
> this breaks ASF playback.

Breaks how? Could you provide MPlayer output before and after your patch?
I've rarely had problems with playing ASF streams.

Regards,
R.

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