[FFmpeg-devel] mms:// protocol support

[Raymond Walsh]

Hello

I've been looking for a way to play those 30-second ASF(WMA?) sound files you see on many web sites.
-- The HTTP url yields XML which contains an MMS:// url.
Does that sound familiar?

libavcodec supports the data fetched from the mms url, but I could not get libavformat to retrieve the data from the mms-protocl url.
-- I'd used: av_open_input_file(&ic, mms_url_string, NULL, 0, NULL);

I've smashed libmms (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmms) into my local copy of libavformat, and I was wondering whether this is the sort of thing that would be welcomed into ffmpeg.

1) Does libavformat already support "mms://" and I simply failed to "./configure" it correctly or something?
2) If it does not, would the integration of libmms into libavcodec be welcomed?


Sincerely
Raymond Walsh