[Live-devel] unable to play stream, unexpected "Stream EOF detected" error

[Max]

Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live.com> wrote:

>>I'm trying to play the following stream using mplayer.
>>
>>rtsp://data1.russiantvonline.com/smils/eralash.smil
>>
>>But it immediately reports "Stream EOF detected" and stops. VLC behaves 
>>similarly.
>>At the same time, this stream is perfectly played by RealPlayer.
>>
>>So it seems to be a bug in live.com streaming software.
> 
> 
> No, there's no 'bug'.  The problem is that the stream uses SMIL, which the 
> LIVE.COM RTSP client software does not support.

Is there any chance to get SMIL support in the LIVE.COM RTSP client?
Or is there any other opensource streaming tool that supports SMIL?

Thanks,
Max