Opened 19 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
#694 closed defect (duplicate)
Error while parsing chunk header
| Reported by: | Owned by: | reimar | |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | streaming |
| Version: | HEAD | Severity: | normal |
| Keywords: | Cc: | compn, skliarie@… | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Reproduced by developer: | no | Analyzed by developer: | no |
Description
The URL mentioned in the URL field fails to play even with -playlist. "Error while parsing chunk header" appears in the output throughout. This was first reported as a Debian bug, compare
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403646&repeatmerged=yes
Change History (7)
comment:1 by , 19 years ago
| Status: | new → assigned |
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comment:2 by , 19 years ago
What were the problems with playlist autodetection? Do they still apply? Having to manually specify -playlist is ugly.
comment:3 by , 19 years ago
Sirs !
I find that MPlayer-1.0rc can't handle .asx Urls like: http://www.wbur.org/listen/feed/shoutcast.asx with the errors described above.
I found that MPlayer-0.93 had no problems with those !
Maybe this can be of help to you?
comment:4 by , 16 years ago
| Cc: | added |
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3.5 years later - is there hope for the bug to be fixed?
I got here because people I installed ubuntu for can not play videos from an high-profile site:
http://www.hidabroot.org/MediaDetail.asp?MediaID=11886
What is the problem to enable playlist autodetection for nested links as well?
comment:5 by , 16 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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comment:6 by , 15 years ago
| Cc: | added |
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probably no fix, playtree / playlist is some of the oldest (and buggiest) code in mplayer.
comment:7 by , 15 years ago
| Resolution: | → duplicate |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
Mark this as a duplicate of a more general automatic playlist detection bug.
That error message is unrelated.
It's a playlist in playlist, but -playlist switch can force playlist parsing only for the first case.
The mimetype from the server is video/x-ms-asf for both first (the asx) and second (the makeplaylist.dll) playlists (that's not a playlist mimetype, but this is sadly quite common for wmv). Because of this the seconf file is processed by so the file is processed by the asf demuxer, and that obviously fails.
Imho the only clean way to fix this is to restore automatic playlist detection (eventually enhanced).
A temporary workaround is to change the #if 0 at line 4281 in mplayer.c to #if 1 (this needs some checks before we can think about changing it in svn).