problematic .asx files

Dear Devs,

Below you can find some posts (4 e-mails) from the opensuse mailing list..
There seems to be a bug in the mplayer plugin to play certain .asx
files.. could this be fixed?

Kind regards,

Sampsa

Mail (1):
> On Tuesday 07 October 2008 12:17:37 am Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
> > I've recently gotten this working with the mplayer plugin. I think I
> > am using the one from Packman repository. if you use 64-bit openSUSE
> > you must use 64-bit firefox (you can install the 32-bit plugin but it
> > won't work w/o 32-bit mplayer, and when you try to install that it
> > wants to convert just about every KDE package to 32bit)
> >
> > I can play the live streaming audio on Sirius radio and other such sites.
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:13 PM, James Hatridge <[email protected]>
>
> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I just installed 11.0 today. Now on some video sites FF can not play
> > > the video, it wants "Windows Media Player" but I've not found a Linux
> > > plugin for this.
> > >
> > > What can I do? BTW I was able to play these videos under 10.1 with
> > > SeaMonkey.
>
> Just in case you want an alternative for the mplayer plugin ..
>
> There are a lot of weird web-pages out there that mplayer plugin
> is not able to handle..   I had this problem when installing suse for
> my 60+ old mom.
>
> - Remove mplayer plugin (there seems to be no way to disable it in firefox)
> - Install the following add-on for firefox:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446
>
> .. in that add-on you can easily configure an external program that plays
> for example those .asx and .asf files.  The best one I have found
> (that understands each and every format and every web-page) is kmplayer.
>
> An alternative way would be to configure the mimetypes in firefox,
> but that seems to be somewhat complicated..
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sampsa

Mail (2):
> Errr.. KMplayer uses either MPlayer or Xine as it's backend...  So...
> if you were having problems with the mplayer-plugin but kmplayer
> worked, then I'm guessing that you didn't have the w32codecs
> installed, and that KMPlayer was configured to use Xine and
> Gstreamer... or something along those lines.
>
> In my experience, MPlayer and the w32codecs will play everything
> except DRMed video - just as well as Xine will.
>
> C.
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Mail (3):
> Err.. please go to the following page. ;)
>
> http://www.radiojai.com.ar/OnLine/
>
> Then click the tab "Música" and choose any of the radio
> stations.
>
> .. does not play with mplayer plugin, but with kmplayer it works!
>
> So why is this?
>
> If you look at the address bar in the opening window, you can
> extract the following line (for example, if you chose the "jasidica"
> radio station):
>
> http://www.rhp.com.ar/canales/jasidico/jasidica6.asx
>
> Now if you pass that to mplayer in command line, it does
> not play a thing.
>
> If you pass that same address to kmplayer, it works fine and
> gives the output:
>
> mplayer -wid 65012477 -slave  -vo xv,sdl,x11 -ao
> alsa,oss,sdl,arts -framedrop  -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation
> 0  -cache 128 'http://www.rhp.com.ar/canales/jasidico/061.wma' -identify
>
> The conclusion: it seems that kmplayer does its own processing of the .asx
> format and then passes the things it finds in the .asx file to mplayer..
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sampsa
>
> P.S. That was a fine example of those .. extraordinary..  web-pages my mom
> visits. ;)

Mail (4):
> KMplayer is only a frontend (and plugin) for whatever backend it's
> attached to.. MPlayer, or Xine (as well as ffmpeg, ffserver and VDR).
> See http://kmplayer.kde.org/
>
> Using your example, a simple
>   mplayer -playlist http://www.rhp.com.ar/canales/jasidico/jasidica6.asx
>  works just fine...
> (this is actually a known problem with MPlayer that has been around
> for about 4 years.. or more)
>
> I have no idea how to config the plugin to pass this option for
> playlists.  Moot though since KMPlayer works in its place.
>
> C
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