WMA Stream And ASX File Will Not Launch

[marccunn]

Hello:

I downloaded VLC 2.0.0 so I could replace my Windows Media Player 11.

I mainly listen to the WMA streams of two classical radio stations, WETA (classical music) and VivaLaVoce (classical vocal music).

Here is the URL for the VivaLaVoce streaming page: http://www.weta.org/fm/listenlive/vivalavoce

The URL for the WETA WMA stream itself is: mms://stream.weta.org/winstream

Here is the URL for the WETA streaming page: http://www.weta.org/fm/listenlive

The URL for the VivaLaVoce WMA stream itself is: mms://stream.weta.org/viva

VLC cannot open either of these WMA streams.

Does anyone know why?

There is also a WETA Mp3 stream, but I cannot give you the URL because this fourum only allows a max of 4 URLs per post.

VLC plays that Mp3 stream perfectly (so that also confirms that this is a VLC problem and not a problem with my computer).

I also downloaded an .ASX file of the playlist from the WETA site, to see if VLC would open it.

I associated the ASX file type with VLC, but VLC could not open it.

I have a custom computer that I built, with an Gigabyte X58-UD5 motherboard, 24GB RAM, WXP Pro (with all updates), 100GB C: Drive and 12 2TB SATA drives and an OMEGA Claro Halo XT sound card.

My computer works beautifully, since Windows Media Player can open all 3 of those streams.

There is a WETA FAQ, and it has some general info about the streams, but there is no troubleshooting FAQ itself.

I have e-mailed both stations, in the hope that they might have some insight into this problem.

Can anyone here help.

I see some other people have posted similar issues before me.

No one here was able to help them, so they just re-associated their streams and ASX files with Windows Media Player.

However, they all had VLC v1.x.x.

I am hoping that now there is v2.0.0, someone here can solve this conundrum.

Thanks in advance.

marccunn

[VLC_help]

What does Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) complain when you try to open e.g. mms://stream.weta.org/winstream ?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

File a bug.

[marccunn]

Hello VLC_help:

Here is what the error message box said:

Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'mms://stream.weta.org/viva'. Check the log for details.

I have the long print-out from the log itself, and I tried to post it here.

However, it had more than 4 URLs, so your server would not let it post.

Please contact me at my e-mail address, and I will send you the log print-out.

Thanks.

marccunn

[marccunn]

Hello Jean-Baptiste:

What is the proper forum for filing a bug report?

Thanks.

marccunn

[VLC_help]

I can file the report during weekend.

You can paste the log to
http://pastebin.com/

[VLC_help]

mms://stream.weta.org/winstream and mms://stream.weta.org/viva work fine in VLC 2.0.1