[cacko]

Hi I have s question, concerning -playlist option in mplayer.

when I type mplayer -playlist http://test.com/test.asx the online stream is playing, but if I add http://test.com/test.asx it doesn't work.

the asx file contains something like this:

<ASX version = "3.0">
<TITLE>test broadcast</TITLE>
<ENTRY>
<TITLE>test live (720x576)</TITLE>
<AUTHOR>test</AUTHOR>
<COPYRIGHT>test</COPYRIGHT>
<REF HREF = "http://test.com/test.asf" />
</ENTRY>
</ASX>

if I try http://test.com/test.asf in rulesPlayer it's working. I want to know if there's some way to make rulesPlayer play http://test.com/test.asx, just with a click on the link (without the need to open the asx file and to copy/paste the asf link in rulesPlayer)

[bobef]

No way currently. I will have to write an ASX parser and extact the filenames from there... I will add it to the todo list.

[mark]

I have hit this problem as well

I tried adding -playlist via mp_more in console trying to get the mplayer command to read :

mplayer <mp_params> -playlist <URL>

However the actual command generated is :

mplayer <mp_params> -playlist <lots of other settings> <URL>

So I can't get around the problem that way

Rather than write some code in rulesPlayer to read the various playlist files (m3u, pls, asx, ram etc) how about allowing for a tick box in the URL dialogue to add -playlist infront of it or look at the URL in rulesPlayer code and if its a playlist extension add -playlist when building the mplayer command in rulesPlayer. This code would be a lot easier I suspect and would need no changes to handle different playlist formats

Just an idea.......

[bobef]

Actually I never looked into the mplayer playlist features. I knew what I want from my playlist (winamp 2.9x behavior) and I knew how to do it, so I never messed up with mplayer's playlist. Maybe it is a good idea, but I don't have the time right now to work on the player...