This was apparently worked around in the Kiwilinux distro by patching Totem to ignore http:// entries in wmv playlists.
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Index: totem-2.22.1/browser-plugin/totem-plugin-viewer.c =================================================================== --- totem-2.22.1.orig/browser-plugin/totem-plugin-viewer.c 2008-04-30 13:04:38.000000000 +0300 +++ totem-2.22.1/browser-plugin/totem-plugin-viewer.c 2008-04-30 13:16:33.000000000 +0300 @@ -2178,6 +2178,10 @@ TotemEmbedded *emb = (TotemEmbedded *) data; TotemPlItem *item; int duration; + + //FIXME: This is a workaround for broken BBC News WMV playlist. + if (g_str_has_prefix (uri, "http://";) && g_str_has_suffix(uri, "wmv")) + return; if (g_str_has_prefix (uri, "file://") != FALSE && g_str_has_prefix (emb->base_uri, "file://") == FALSE) {
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