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Try as I might to break my grasp from M$ they are wearing me down. I love vlan except it can't play my favorite station, streaming archive, http://kexp.org/ondemand.asp When I install vlan it then breaks the association to play the steaming archive with M$ MP. I can't even figure out how or what this file type is I try to change the associations in Firefox so everything microsoft plays in M$ but VLAN keeps trying to play these stream which it fails at....my solution has been to uninstall VLAN. I did figure it out once but after my last VLAN upgrade I have since forgotten. ...

I'd love to play these archive streams with vlan, but from what I can tell this is not possible. mplayer can supposedly do the real stream with some command line trickery but I"m tired of f'n around with getting streams to play....it shouldn't be so complicated...I know M$ makes so, people tire of fighting with them and finally get assimilated.


Any tips?

VLC or VLC browser plugin tries to open the file?

I guess the plugin as it pops up a firefox window with the bottom part hanging on "waiting for video" but this is an audio only stream.....

It is browser plugin then. And it doesn't know if the stream is video or audio, so that is why it always says "waiting for video".

Easiest thing might be to remove the browser plugin.

As VLC_help said remove the Mozilla plugin. You can do this by reinstalling VLC and ensuring that "Mozilla plugin" is not ticked.

The streams seem to play fine in VLC directly though - you can open them directly by, in VLC, going to "Media >> Open Network..." and opening e.g.:
http://kexp.org/audio/kexp-uncomp.asx

Or:
http://kexp.org/audio/kexp.wmx

Arite.

As far as I can tell through testing, the current plugin versions for VLC will not support input of ASX or any other types of playlist wrappers. The plugin does work with individual files though but only properly for IE, Safari, and Firefox. In Chrome and Opera the Mozilla plugin conflicts with and takes over embedded WMP players.

Opening a .asx playlist directly in VLC through "Open Network Stream" does work as does clicking on an asx file as long as file associations for asx are set to open with VLC. However this is not the same as embedding VLC in a webpage.

I do see many posts that reference playlists but I do not know how to implement with the following embed code:

<OBJECT id=vlc codeBase="http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/video ... /axvlc.cab" classid=clsid:E23FE9C6-778E-49D4-B537-38FCDE4887D8 width=506 height=380 events="True"><PARAM NAME="AutoLoop" VALUE="-1"><PARAM NAME="AutoPlay" VALUE="-1"><PARAM NAME="Toolbar" VALUE="0"><PARAM NAME="ExtentWidth" VALUE="13387"><PARAM NAME="ExtentHeight" VALUE="10054"><PARAM NAME="MRL" VALUE="http://server.com/mediafiletoplay"><PARAM NAME="Visible" VALUE="-1"><PARAM NAME="Volume" VALUE="100"><PARAM NAME="StartTime" VALUE="0"><PARAM NAME="BaseURL" VALUE=""><PARAM NAME="BackColor" VALUE="0">
<embed allowscriptaccess="never" type="application/x-vlc-plugin" name="VLC" autoplay="yes" loop="no" volume="100" width="506" height="380" target="http://server.com/mediafiletoplay"></OBJECT>

If anyone can tell me how to make .asx files work with the embed plugins I would appreciate it very much.