VLC/ASX streams with RTSP

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Enter rtsp://URL_HERE into Web.conf - works OK
2. Enter http://URL_HERE into Web.conf - doesnt work.  That URL returns 
the following output (ASF) which contains RTSP stream:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:17:44 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: video/x-ms-asf; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 273

<ASX version = "3.0"><TITLE>VIDEO URL</TITLE><ENTRY><TITLE>Video 
Feed</TITLE><AUTHOR>Info</AUTHOR><COPYRIGHT>(c)XYZ.com</COPYRIGHT><REF 
HREF="rtsp://URL_HERE?
sid=06C2722E2215586646CF329214CFF28B2DF7D13002BF6F398D7B60B80F68B4"/></ENTR
Y></ASX>

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected behavior similar to the link #1.  VLC supports both - URL#1 and 
URL#2 when played in VLC player directly.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.03 on WinXP SP2

If you are transcoding a media file, which engine are you using (mencoder, 
avisynth/mencoder, tsmuxer?) VLC

If the media file is in error (or does not play flawlessly), what are the 
codec informations of this file (you can use following program: 
mediainfo.sourceforge.net) ? 

Please provide any additional information below and PLEASE JOIN debug.log 
file !!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lv...@live.com on 21 Jan 2009 at 4:04

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could you post a sample URL ? (rather than URL_HERE :p)

Original comment by ps3mediaserver@gmail.com on 21 Jan 2009 at 8:37

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It's a subscriber for-pay service - non-public website that broadcasts Russian 
language TV channels.  It contains user and password and the URL...
Is that the only way you could debug that?

Original comment by lv...@live.com on 22 Jan 2009 at 4:10

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any chance I could get you user name/password in PM?

Original comment by lv...@live.com on 4 Feb 2009 at 3:29

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yes

ps3mediaserver at gmail.com

Original comment by ps3mediaserver@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2009 at 7:31

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If you need .asx webstreams for testings, here are few more links.

web page: http://areena.yle.fi/toista?quality=lo&id=1610185
asx url : http://www.yle.fi/java/areena/dispatcher/1610185.asx?bitrate=1
asx ref : 
http://mediak.yle.fi/media/areena/1/61/01/1610188_974312.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf
mms     : 
mms://mediak.yle.fi/media/areena/1/61/01/1610188_974312.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf

web page: http://areena.yle.fi/toista?quality=lo&id=1887955
asx url : http://www.yle.fi/java/areena/dispatcher/1887955.asx?bitrate=1
asx ref : 
http://mediak.yle.fi/media/areena/1/88/79/1887957_1100889.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf
mms     : 
mms://mediak.yle.fi/media/areena/1/88/79/1887957_1100889.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf

What I have found out, I must use mms://* url in a rss feed document or VLC 
streamer
does not work. VLC standalone player can play asx url and http:// within a asx 
reply. 

Its a pain to parse internal asx refs, would be so much easier to give the 
original
.asx url and VLC be happy. Its not :-(
I created and use this Areena2RSS converter discussed here:
http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=666

Original comment by akinim...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2009 at 6:56

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Thanks for the links. I think it's a great idea about the plugin system, or at 
least 
have PS3MS to parse out the asx files before sending request to VLC.  I tried 
these 
links in VLC - they dont work because of MMS.  My ASX files have internal RTSP 
references that do work with VLC when I play them through VLC directly, but do 
not 
work in PS3MS.

Is there any way you could fix this by parsing out the ASX's internal reference 
or 
at least have an option to do that?

Original comment by lv...@live.com on 21 Feb 2009 at 12:00

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Web video streaming issues are addressed in the FAQ:

http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3507&p=37084#p37084

Please discuss the issue on the forum if that doesn't solve your problem:

http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=496

Original comment by chocol...@cpan.org on 14 Jan 2011 at 2:50

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