Playlists aren't recognized without -playlist switch?

[jconroy@…]

I'm using Livna's mplayer-1.0-0.76.20070612svn.lvn7.x86_64 RPM and have run into a problem playing streams from Sirius' website.

Copying the URL onto the commandline, I found that it's actually a playlist and MPlayer is not properly recognizing the playlist unless the "-playlist" switch is also passed on the commandline.

Below is the playlist as passed (by URL) from Sirius' website:

<ASX Version="3.0">
<entry>
<ref href="​http://a676.l2280061886.c22800.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/676/22800/v000
1/reflector:61886?aifp=abcd&partner=sirius_online_player&stream=area33&auth=daEb
fdvbFcYcLcsdfbwajaYbEazdubFanbt-bgEBTr-cw-GuBVyHbbgh&token=null&login_type=&logi
n=&campaign=&bitrate=low&wmcache=0&mswmext=.asx"/>
<ref href="mms://a676.l2280061886.c22800.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/676/22800/v0001
/reflector:61886?aifp=abcd&partner=sirius_online_player&stream=area33&auth=daEbf
dvbFcYcLcsdfbwajaYbEazdubFanbt-bgEBTr-cw-GuBVyHbbgh&token=null&login_type=&login
=&campaign=&bitrate=low&wmcache=0"/>
</entry>
</ASX>

[jconroy@…]

Patch to add "text/html" mimetype as playlists

[jconroy@…]

Adds mimetypes for Playlists in stream/network.c

text/html
text/html;ISO-8859-1

The second encoding type being the one used for Sirius' web broadcasting...

[compn]

* Bug 699 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *

[dhdurgee@…]

This problem is still present for me. The above URL returns a playlist and I can play it fine with vlc, but mplayer refuses to deal with it unless I add -playlist before the URL on the command line. This is with the current mplayer as distributed with Linux Mint 8 Helena - x64 edition.