[MPlayer-dev-eng] MMS Streaming

[Bertrand Baudet]

On Wednesday 05 December 2001 03:13 pm, you wrote:
> mms://mslive.net-36.net/panamsatedge117 is coming from a Windows Media
> Server. That much I do know.

I can ping the server but I can't get an answer from the WMS.

> http://216.90.76.254:80/56klive is indeed coming from a regular web server.
>  This is what I was calling a "HTTP stream" for lack of a better name. 
> This is a live radio feed from www.radiokansas.org.  Thus why I am able to
> stream it via aviplay.

Ok, I can connect to this one, but this server is a WMS, if you see that
the server name, in the header, is "cougar", that's a WMS.
BTW, HTTP streaming from a true webserver is called "progressive streaming".

Bertrand


> Bertrand Baudet wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 December 2001 05:47 pm, you wrote:
> > > I am using "mms://mslive.net-36.net/panamsatedge117" as my test stream.
> > > Ok. I can see that HTTP is needed for MMS encapsulation.  If I do a
> > > HTTP stream, the filesize does get read in right. As for the live MMS
> > > stream, it keeps looping in the asf_stream_start() function after
> > > reading in the header. I can see that the live stream will return a
> > > file size of 0 bytes on purpose.
> >
> > I can't connect to the stream.
> > What did you mean by a HTTP stream? A stream that's coming from a
> > webserver or a stream that is coming from a WMS (Windows Media Server).
> > All video files coming from a webserver are supposed to be streamed
> > properly. This should work, I tested it with avi, mpeg, asf, wmv...
> > Everything coming from a WMS is buggy, ie, live stream(not seekable) or
> > prerecorded stream(seekable). This is because the WMS is changing some
> > header fields in the ASF and mplayer is not yet aware of this.
> > I need to check the difference in the ASF header size directly from the
> > file and the one coming from the server. It looks like they are
> > different. There is a field that hold the file size, but at the first
> > glance, I will have to do a hack in the asf header. I figured out several
> > fields in the asf headers and I will try to make the changes in mplayer.
> > So the file size should be fixed with this.
> >
> > > And the MMS live stream will not return EOF (as with a regular ASF
> > > file).
> >
> > No, the streaming protocol specifies a packet for the end of
> > transmission.
> >
> > > So, I can see mplayer will return "no video/audio streams." Looks like
> > > mplayer is looking for EOF before the streams are played.
> >
> > This is because the file size is not set properly. In addition of this,
> > if the file size is set properly, the stream will still end because there
> > is no prebuffer yet.
> >
> > Bertrand
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