[vox-tech] .asx player for Linux?

R. Douglas Barbieri vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 19:04:11 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, William Kendrick wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:04:36AM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
[snip]
> 
> I'm not sure what ASX is compared to ASF, but you might have luck with
> XMMS and some plugins. :^/  Check www.xmms.org
[snip]
> 

>From AVIFILE website (http://avifile.sourceforge.net/docs.htm):

"Streaming over the Internet

   Media content in ASF format can be streamed over the Internet in
several ways. Most popular way is streaming using HTTP protocol. Other
protocols, such as UDP, may be supported as well. URLs for ASF files may
lead to 'redirectors'. Redirector is a XML file that describes media that
it refers to, includes other URLs and additional data needed for stream
playback. Redirector files often have extensions .asx, but it's probably
                                                 ^^^^
not a requirement. Some details can be found at 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/peerjournal/wm/g060199a.asp."

-- 
R. Douglas Barbieri (who is compiling avifile as he writes this email)
doug@dooglio.net
www.dooglio.net