-dumpstream on ASF/WMA is real-time only. Can it be accelerated?

[alun at texis.com (Alun Jones)]

Reimar D?ffinger [mailto:Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de]:
> 
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 08:10:49AM -0700, Alun Jones wrote:
> > Please let me know if there's anything I'm doing wrong, if this is a
> > fundamental limit set at the server, or something else entirely.
> 
> Something in-between. MMS is indeed designed to only produce data
> in realtime, however there seem to be some tricks to convince it to
> do it faster. However MPlayer does not use these tricks, and actually
> I don't even know nay details how they work (I think something like
> telling
> the server that the client is still trying to buffer).

It'd be interesting to know what the level of effort is in making these
happen.

Would this document help?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc251059.aspx

Alun.
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