Re: problematic .asx files

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 05:39:57 pm Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> Sampsa Riikonen wrote:
> > 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
>
> I took a look at the notes below and basically it comes down to this.
> The site below is passing an ASX file that only has relative urls for
> the media files. So mplayerplug-in is passing the entire ASX file to
> mplayer for processing, but because the full path to the ASX file is
> missing, mplayer can't find anything.

Well.. the full path could be extracted from the filename:

http://www.rhp.com.ar/canales/jasidico/jasidica6.asx

It is quite logical that the filenames mentioned in the .asx
file have relative addresses.

I am unsubscribing from this list now..  I hope you fix it someday.

For a newbie, who gets his brand new linux and mplayer-plugin 
installed by a friend, the impression is that "linux doesn't work". ;)

Cheers,

Sampsa

> Kevin
>
> > 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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