Viewing video on espn.com

[Joel Hammer]

Same result here.

It plays fine on XP in windows media player.

When I save the page that mplayer is trying to load and play, this is
the page I get:

<ASX VERSION="3.0">
<ENTRY>
<REF HREF="mms://espnigwm.fplive.net/espnig/200312230526820.wm9_300k.espn_page.wmv" />
</ENTRY>
</ASX>

running this command:
mplayer mms://espnigwm.fplive.net/espnig/200312230526820.wm9_300k.espn_page.wmv

gives this output:


Playing mms://espnigwm.fplive.net/espnig/200312230526820.wm9_300k.espn_page.wmv
Resolving espnigwm.fplive.net ...
Connecting to server espnigwm.fplive.net[207.189.78.251]:80 ...
Stream bitrate properties object
Max bandwidth set to 0
Resolving espnigwm.fplive.net ...
Connecting to server espnigwm.fplive.net[207.189.78.251]:80 ...
Cache size set to 930 KBytes
Connected to server: espnigwm.fplive.net
Cache fill:  0.30% (2816 bytes)    ASF file format detected.
============ ASF Stream group == START ===
 object size = 38
 stream count=[0x2][2]
   stream id=[0x1][1]
   max bitrate=[0x8727][34599]
   stream id=[0x2][2]
   max bitrate=[0x424bf][271551]
============ ASF Stream group == END ===
ASF: No video stream found.
ASF: No audio stream found -> no sound.
No stream found.



So, it looks like mplayer cannot/will not talk to the server.

Can mplayer play wmv files? If so, is sounds like ESPN and MS have
worked out a deal.

However, before you put much time into this, are you sure you want to hear
that lady reporter ask Brett Favre how it felt to play with broken heart?


Joel