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zn
29th September 2012, 16:15
I am trying to find good player which will can handle indefinite HTTP streams

it seems linux based players are best in streaming, for example :
vlc
ffplay
mplayer/smplayer
many android apps

windows directshow based players have problems with http streams :
mpc-hc - tried haali Splitter, LAV Filters Splitter, AV Splitter - problems
kmplayer - tried kmp own splitter - problems
j river, potplayer - tried briefly - problems

I want to find DirectShow player with good http streaming support (mpeg ts), to use it with madVR and one of recomended DS decode filters

mplayer + dsnative (Direct Show Native Wrapper) - some ds filters work, but madvr seems unusable
mpc-hc + wget (file download and playback at the same time) - this is only working solution, but requires temporarily file (wasting i/o)

I am not sure if is it a problem of Player programs or Splitters or both or something else ?

may be someone knows how to use directshow based player (mpc/other) with pipe input (so I can use it with wget without making temporarily file)

any suggestions?

Reino
1st October 2012, 14:21
For MPC-HC, see #post1588980. Although my post is about SHOUTcast, the registry-fix should work for video streaming too.
You could also give ZoomPlayer a try. At least with SHOUTcast streams it works just fine.

P.s. I got a notification-email about your post in the LAV-thread about "File Source (URL)" or "LAV Source" handling streams in MPC-HC...where has it gone??