When I try to play the above Windows Media stream using mplayerplug-in, the ... the plug-in appears, displays "Getting Playlist", then "Stopped". Occasionally you can see a URL flash past in between "Getting Playlist" and "Stopped". Clicking Play again doesn't help. The result is the same. It seems as though mplayerplug-in isn't processing the playlists properly. If I manually grab the links with wget I can play the stream from the shell with mplayer. I've tried upgrading to a testing ebuild of 3.55, but it makes no difference. Same results. I am using Firefox 3 now but it was doing this with Firefox 2.x also. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install mplayerplug-in 3.50 and Firefox 3 2. Go to the URL above (though I have encountered this problem with most of the Windows Media URLs I've tried) Actual Results: The plug-in appears, displays "Getting Playlist", then "Stopped". Occasionally you can see a URL flash past in between "Getting Playlist" and "Stopped". Clicking Play again doesn't help. The result is the same. Expected Results: It should actually have played the stream, especially considering that it works when I manually get the ASX object and pull the stream URL out of it, then try playing the stream from the command-line interface using mplayer. So the problem is not that mplayer cannot play the stream, but that the plug-in is not resolving the stream URL properly. Contents of the above URL: <html> <head> <title>CBC Radio One Calgary (32 kbps)</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="../../common_radio/radio.css"> <script language="JavaScript" src="../../common_radio/radio_common.js"></script> </head> <!--CBC Radio One Calgary --> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" background="images/back.gif" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <table width="320" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="320" align="left" valign="top"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td><img src="../../common_radio/images/logo_radio1_small.gif" width="125" height="19"></td> <td align="right">Calgary (32 kbps)</td> </tr> </table> <!--Embed Player--> Windows Media Player: <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td align="center"> <!-- Windows Media Player Stream Code Be sure to replace the stream URL in both the OBJECT and EMBED tags --> <object id="MediaPlayer" classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/ en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,5,715" height="70" width="300"> <param name="AutoSize" value="0"> <param name="AutoStart" value="1"> <param name="AnimationAtStart" value="0"> <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="1"> <param name="ShowControls" value="1"> <param name="ShowAudioControls" value="1"> <param name="ShowTracker" value="TRUE"> <param name="AllowScan" value="-1"> <param name="ClickToPlay" value="0"> <param name="Filename" value="http://www.cbc.ca/livemedia/cbcr1-calgary.asx"> <param name="TransparentAtStart" value="1"> <param name="CursorType" value="0"> <embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" src="http://www.cbc.ca/livemedia/cbcr1-calgary.asx" name=MediaPlayer animationatstart=0 autostart=1 width=300 height=70 transparentatstart=0 showstatusbar=1 showcontrols=1 autosize=0 displaysize=0> </embed> </object> <!--End Windows Media Player Stream Code--> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.1" src="/includes/stats/hbx_page_code.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.1" src="/includes/stats/hbx_cbc.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> hbx.media="MediaPlayer"; hbx.onlyMedia="y"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.1" src="/includes/stats/hbx.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.1" src="/news/video/default/stats/hbxmedia.js"></script> <a href="#"><img src="../countdownimages/countdown_blank.gif" name="countdown" width="300" height="20" border="0"></a> </td> </tr> </table> <!--/Embed Player--> <br> </td> </tr> </table> <!--CBC Bar Include--> <!--/CBC BAR INCLUDE--> <br> <br> <FORM name="sw"> <input type="hidden" name="beg2" size="7" value="60:00"> <input type="hidden" name="disp2" size="9"> <input type="hidden" name="message" size="40"> </FORM> </body> </html> This points to http://www.cbc.ca/livemedia/cbcr1-calgary.asx: <ASX VERSION="3.0"> <ENTRY> <REF HREF="http://mfile2.akamai.com/9617/live/reflector:36811.asx?bkup=36812" /> </ENTRY> </ASX> And http://mfile2.akamai.com/9617/live/reflector:36811.asx?bkup=36812 finally contains the stream URL: <ASX VERSION="3.0"> <ENTRY> <REF HREF="mms://a812.l961736811.c9617.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/812/9617/v0001/reflector:36811" /> </ENTRY> <ENTRY> <REF HREF="mms://a813.l961736812.c9617.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/813/9617/v0001/reflector:36812" /> </ENTRY> </ASX> If I play this from the command-line with mplayer, it works fine.
Created attachment 165133 [details] asx package The ASX package that contains the stream URL.
Created attachment 165135 [details] The original HTML for the stream pop-up window
Created attachment 165136 [details] This contains the _actual_ stream URL :)
Sorry, this is more of an upstream bug. I can't really do much about this, but if you post the exact same thing that you posted here to the mplayerplug-in mailing list, I'm sure the author can help you out. Sorry!
