just in case anyone hadn't figured this out already, the TVNZ Olympics live streams can be played directly via their mms:// URIs as follows:
mplayer -nocache mms://live.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz1-live_700k or for those of you with less bandwidth: mplayer -nocache mms://live.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz1-live_300k maybe it's just me, but the ASX links didn't work at all; mplayer doesn't seem to be able to parse them without win32codecs or similar (which I don't have installed), whereas the above direct links play fine via ffmpeg/libavcodec. anyone with a full-rate ADSL connection, particularly those of us blessed with ADSL2+, on an ISP that peers, should in theory be able to use the first link, which is an _excellent_ quality stream. if you have a rate-limited connection or are with an ISP that does not peer, you might have to use the second link. -jasper
