[bongo-devel] Re: URI mplayer question

[Dieter Deyke]

Dieter Deyke <address@hidden> writes:

> I am using Bongo on Windows XP with the mplayer back-end (because VLC
> does not work on Windows with Bongo).  I want to play two different
> kind of streams:
>
> - type 1 is providing audio directly, like
>   http://sc1.spacialnet.com:17762/ (may be offline at the moment)
>
> - type 2 is providing a playlist of type 1 streams, like
>   http://www.sky.fm/mp3/the80s.pls
>
> mplayer can play type 1 with Bongo just fine, but it needs a command
> line argument -playlist to deal with type 2.
>
> How can I deal with that when using bongo-insert-uri?

To follow up on my own post, it looks like mplayer is able to play
urls of the form http://xxx.pls without the -playlist command line
option, but it requires it for urls of the form http://xxx.m3u

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