Networking problems? I don't get the current MPlayerHQ

[LigH]

:eek:

Why me?

Something terrible happens - I am unable to contact half of the MPlayerHQ site. Just heard that MPlayer 1.0pre8 was released, clicked on the link in the Heise (news magazine) article

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

and receive a "404 - Document not found"...

Quick check from my german board mates: No, everything works fine for them. They can also read the documentation, e.g.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html

Same for me: "404 - Document not found."

Who and where in the World Wide Web is playing with me here? This happens with two different systems (in different towns, but in a range of ~50 km), and with 2 different ISP's.

Then I tried to use a public HTTP proxy, and voila: It works!?

Now I have some suspicion:

Do some ISPs cache these sites?

[foxyshadis]

Huh, happens for me too. It may not be the ISP, but the dns actually resolving to a different server when using some proxy in another part of the world, while the main servers' caches aren't updating properly. Or the main server is just toast temporarily. Try checking what IP you connect to from the proxy.

Interestingly, with at least this mirror, the actual page is http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html

[Razorholt]

you may download 1.0pre8 from http://mpui.sourceforge.net/

- Dan

[LigH]

MPUI - nice, I will remember this site. Thanks!

[Latexxx]

Follow the current!

svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer

and later

svn update

[LigH]

And what shall I do with the C sources ... as long as I don't own any C compiler? Setting up a whole C development environment, only for compiling one tool, would be too much efforts for the wanted result for me. ;)

[GodofaGap]

Setting up MingW/MSYS shouldn't take much longer than the time it takes to download it. And that way you don't have to wait months/years for a new version to come out. :)