ASX is not ASX ?

[Charle387]

I have two Internet streams, both .asx types.
Both will play fine in Windows Media Player 11.
One will play fine in VLC 1.0.5,
One will not play in VLC 1.0.5, crashing VLC every time.
Other kinds of streams I've tried play fine on both VLC and WMP.

The above is true on both Vista 64 and XP machines.

Why?
Are there multiple flavors of .ASX?
Is there some way to look 'inside' a .asx file?
What can I do to get VLC to play both of them on both machines?
Have I missed something in VLC, perhaps a setting? (I'm a new user.)

The failing internet stream is at http://www2.webcastcenter.com/asx/highadv/highadv.asx.

Charlie

[King InuYasha]

I have two Internet streams, both .asx types.
Both will play fine in Windows Media Player 11.
One will play fine in VLC 1.0.5,
One will not play in VLC 1.0.5, crashing VLC every time.
Other kinds of streams I've tried play fine on both VLC and WMP.

The above is true on both Vista 64 and XP machines.

Why?
Are there multiple flavors of .ASX?
Is there some way to look 'inside' a .asx file?
What can I do to get VLC to play both of them on both machines?
Have I missed something in VLC, perhaps a setting? (I'm a new user.)

The failing internet stream is at http://www2.webcastcenter.com/asx/highadv/highadv.asx.

Charlie

ASX files are literally text files containing markup. Open notepad and try to open the ASX file through the Open dialog by placing the URL inside the filename field.

It takes a bit of time to load, but once it does, you usually know all the info you need to make VLC play the stream.

For example, this ASX file contains the following information:

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<asx version = "3.0"> <entry> <ref href = "rtsp://highadvwmlive.webcastcenter.com/highadvlive"/> </entry> </asx>

So the stream you want to load in VLC directly is "rtsp://highadvwmlive.webcastcenter.com/highadvlive"

[Charle387]

King, I did exactly as you said, but get the same VLC crash. Using notepad, I got the some content you did. Copied and pasted into VLC, But still not working.

A side question, maybe. I was told to look at the log files. But what and where are they?

[VLC_help]

Could you try with VLC 1.1.0 nightly builds?