[PLUG] VLC Expert Needed

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Mon Nov 26 21:27:24 UTC 2007


On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:46:09 -0800
Paul Mullen <pm at nellump.net> dijo:

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:21:21AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > 
> > However, when I try to play one of the .asx streams VLC's playlist
> > window shows that it is adding files (lower left corner). It does this
> > for hundreds, sometimes many thousands of files.
> 
> .asx, .m3u, .pls, .smil, .ram are all playlists (or redirects, which
> serve a similar purpose). They point your player to the real source of
> the audio stream. Internet radio stations do this because they rarely
> have only one server handling their stream. When VLC opens one of
> those playlists, it adds each entry to its current playlist, as if you
> had wanted to merge them all. You didn't, but that's life. VLC isn't
> the only player with that behavior.

Thanks for the explanation. I guess VLC is not the right tool for me.

I also guess I'm going to have to go out and learn how each of these formats works.



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