Did you try the .asx url with -playlist?
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Jasper Bryant-Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > >
