Comments on: Playing ASF streams under Linux (Fedora 10) with mplayer

By: Norman

Norman — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:37:23 +0000

Thanks it helps a lot.

By: Edofin

Edofin — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:39:15 +0000

I managed to get a Laura Lee Show archive to play finally! It is an .asf stream. I have the codecs installed. I followed the suggestion above and added the user-agent line (minus the echo), but that didn’t do the trick.

What did work for me, I added the ‘-playlist’ option. It still spit out a bunch of AF_INET6 gunk I don’t understand, but it tried it twice then started playing the file!

Try mplayer option: -playlist

By: lejo-de-madrid

lejo-de-madrid — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:42:18 +0000

Hello,
Good comment from “natxo asenjo” mediaplayer connectivity is a great firefox/iceweasel extension and very easy to tune.

If you have problems playing proprietary closed formats maybe you shoul install win-32codecs or similar package.

Now mediplayer connectivity on LINUX is absolutely EXTRA : not only will you play ASF files with any of the above players also keep them on you computer.

First : yum install mmsrip or yum install mimms

(IF your fedora repositories are not properly set, you can also download any of these packages manually
and install as root # rpm -ivh mimms-bla-bla-bla.rpm)

Second, tune your mediplayer plugin to do this :
play wmv files with : /usr/bin/mmsrip
or with /usr/bin/mimms

As with anything new there is indeed a leaning curve. Once you become a “Linux Guru” you will also help others.

Regards
Alejo

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By: natxo asenjo

natxo asenjo — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:04:26 +0000

what I usually do is install the firefox mediaplayerconnectivity; it automagically loads the right link in your player of choice.