Problem with http parser looping

[lupien@…]

There is a video website that makes mplayer enter en infinite loop.

This is under fedora 7, livna rpm: mplayer-1.0-0.84.rc2.lvn7

Here are the commands and their results
1) mplayer ​http://www.radio-canada.ca/medianet/2008/CBFT/telejournal200803042200.asx
just exits not playing anything

2)mplayer -playlist ​http://www.radio-canada.ca/medianet/2008/CBFT/telejournal200803042200.asx
This enters an infinite loop where it keeps reopening
​http://ms.radio-canada.ca/2008/medianet/CBFT/Telejournal200803042200.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf

Finally the only command that plays the file is
3)mplayer mmshttp://ms.radio-canada.ca/2008/medianet/CBFT/Telejournal200803042200.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf
Note the use of mmshttp: instead of http:, and the use of the link from the loop (not the initial link)

Command 2) used to work on older version of mplayer (I have another machine with
mplayer-1.0-0.73.20070325svn where that command works fine) but it does not anymore with current versions.

It would be great if command 1) would work (so that the movie could even work inside a web browser) or at least command 2) would work again.

Thanks

[compn]

r25962 still has the problem, but i think its fixed in latest svn.

[compn]

nevermind, still affects
MPlayer dev-SVN-r26046-3.3

[reimar]

You can "fix" it by just adding to you config file
user-agent=NSPlayer/4.1.0.3856

[compn]

what was the reason that useragent wasnt made as default again?

[reimar]

That user agent is just plain wrong for us, we are not Windows-Media-Player and I don't think we should pretend so by default.

[compn]

* Bug 1303 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *

[compn]

i really do hate this bug.