On Wednesday 05 May 2010 14:21:06 Marcel Rieux wrote: > I try to view this video: > > http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/lies/video.html > > and don't succeed. > > I was able to get an mms URL at Akamai, but here's what happens, even using > mplayer directly: > > mplayer mms:// > a1866.v8752c.c8752.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1866/8752/0/origin.media.cbc.ca/ > windows/fifth/media/lies2.wmv If you try mplayer with -v option (verbose mode), it will eventually say (among other things): Parsing playlist http://92.122.211.12/7/1866/8752/0/origin.media.cbc.ca/windows/fifth/media/lies2.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf... Trying asx... Trying Winamp playlist... Trying extended m3u playlist... Trying reference-ini playlist... Detected reference-ini playlist format Playlist successfully parsed Now, you can use the same link in firefox to save the lies2.wmv file, which is actually the reference-ini playlist, which was correctly recognized by mplayer. The catch is that apparently this playlist is pointing to itself, getting mplayer (or anything else) into recursion. It seems that the movie itself doesn't exist, it is just a playlist which is pointing to a .wmv file which is a playlist pointing to the same .wmv file which is a playlist... You get the point. If I were you, I'd complain to the cbc.ca webmaster and tell him to fix it. Also, this has nothing to do with INET6 --- by default mplayer tries first to resolve the link via IPv6, and when that fails (most of the Internet still doesn't have IPv6 implemented) mplayer falls back to ordinary IPv4 resolution, which works successfully, but points to a recursive playlist. HTH, Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
