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Re: playing online radio



On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:44:51 +0200
Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> wrote:

...

> Yes.  A .asx file is a so-called playlist file.  Other playlist files
> are .asf, .pls, .m3u, .smil files, for example.
> 
> Unlike other media players, mplayer does not detect these files itself,
> so you should add the -playlist option:
> 
> mplayer -playlist 'http://mfile.akamai.com/80871/live/reflector:20168.asx?bkup=20883&prop=n'

I recently discovered this quirk of mplayer myself.  The manpage has:

mplayer [options] [file|URL|playlist|-]

Doesn't this seem to imply that mplayer can be given a playlist
straight up?

Celejar
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