Can't play .asx stream with Kaffeine

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I’ve always just defaulted to VLC for all my multimedia needs except Amarok handles my music collection. I always saw Kaffeine as pretty pointless but recently I came to a problem. I watch Bloomberg and a couple of news sites the whole day on my laptop while I work on my school stuff. VLC handles the streams flawlessly but I can’t pause, play and rewind the streams i.e. get a DVR like experience with VLC. However, Kaffeine seems to offer this functionality but I can’t get it to open a .asx/.asxx stream and play.

This is an example of a stream:
Bloomberg Television Live

It plays fine in VLC but I can’t pause it, go to the bathroom and resume from where I left off or jump back 5 min in case I’ve missed something. Which I really need!

Anybody know how to set Kaffeine or VLC up for this or know another program that will give me this functionality? Ideally I’d love to set it up for say a 1hr buffer going backwards from the live stream and I want to be able to jump comfortably around in that buffer zone.

Thanks a ton guys.

I’m running openSUSE 12.2 with KR49 repos, multimedia 1-click-install, and w32 codecs.

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gnome mplayer will let me pause the stream and maintain continuity but it wont let me scroll back within the stream.
Interestingly, smplayer wont play the stream at all.

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Am 29.11.2012 17:46, schrieb farcusnz:
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> gnome mplayer will let me pause the stream and maintain continuity but
> it wont let me scroll back within the stream.
> Interestingly, smplayer wont play the stream at all.
>
>
The vlc browser plugin let’s me play and also scroll back.

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Am 29.11.2012 17:58, schrieb Martin Helm:
> The vlc browser plugin let’s me play and also scroll back.
>
Ignore that I was mislead how it works, it does not rewind at all it
just looked as if for a moment.

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There are 2- x in the end remove the last one. i.e, .asxx = .asx
smplayer will play it.

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I tried xmbc and a plug-in that somebody made. I got the stream to play but again, no rewinding or pause then resume without skipping to live TV. It would be very interesting to see if somebody comes up with a solution even if its a hack with shell scripts.

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with gecko-mediaplayer and gnome-mplayer i can play it on SeaMonkey(GNOME 3.4/openSUSE12.2).
I can pause and play. No rewind or fast forward
http://i.imgur.com/zsmYjs.jpg](http://imgur.com/zsmYj)

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The rewind bit is an important part of the whole DVR experience. The pause-rewind-play component is kind of important to me.

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Does that stream support rewind and fast forward ?

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I don’t think the stream supports it, I was hoping a program could cache the difference. Its really surprising that there isn’t a trick to do this with scripts or a program or something.

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Streamcapture couldn’t find any handle for capturing streams :frowning:

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Am 03.12.2012 05:06, schrieb me3064:
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> I don’t think the stream supports it, I was hoping a program could cache
> the difference. Its really surprising that there isn’t a trick to do
> this with scripts or a program or something.
>
>
I thought about dumping the stream with one instance mplayer2 to
harddisk and a second instance showing the dumped video at the same time
which should then be able to navigate within what is already
dumped/buffered.
I have no time to investigate if that works or not.

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PC: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.5 | GTX 650 Ti
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.9.3 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 11.4 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | lamp server