Re: playing online radio

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:27:26 +0200
Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> wrote:

> Celejar wrote:
> > Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> > > 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?
> 
> Well, I should note that playlist files sometimes appear to function
> without the -playlist option.  I'm not enough of an expert to know the
> precise reason why.

I haven't experimented that much, but my very simple m3u files don't
work without -playlist.

Celejar
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