[gst-devel] streaming windows media problems

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 17:13 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 10:54 +0200, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 15:12, Robert Bank wrote:
> > > prompt#  gst-launch-0.8 gnomevfssrc
> > > location=http://www.garnierstreamingmedia.com/asx/kink_classx.asp !
> > > spider ! volume ! audioscale ! audioconvert ! $(gconftool-2
> > > -g /system/gstreamer/0.8/default/audiosink) 
> > 
> > It's a playlist. Totem does not recognize the stream either, though.
> > Please file a bug in Totem bugzilla (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/).
> 
> What a horrible pile of crap that streaming setup is.
> It's an ASX playlist, pointing to a playlist file (.pls/Winamp format),
> then pointing to one of those dodgy http/mms horrors.
> 
> Streaming mmsh://stream.garnierprojects.com/kinkfm_classx?MSWMExt=.asf
> will work with xine-lib, and most likely with the gst mms plugin,
> pitfdll and some win32 DLLs.
> 
> This looks pretty horrible, wish there was a better way to detect when
> we need to "switch" to mmsh...

In bugzilla now:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310147

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