aha, wonderful. now all I need is an option to mute the awful TVNZ commentators and I'll be set :)
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 08:35 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > 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 > > > >
