Woohoo!
I found the solution via google on a debian discussion list:
Quote:
Scott Berry wrote:
Hi there,
Is anyone aware of a player which will play .asx files. I have checked
out mplayer and they do not support asx as either a video codec or an
audio codec. Thanks for the help.
Hi there,
Is anyone aware of a player which will play .asx files. I have checked
out mplayer and they do not support asx as either a video codec or an
audio codec. Thanks for the help.
Quote:
'less' 
Most asx files that I have run across are just short xml text files that include a URI of the real file which mplayer normally doesn't have porblems with.
Most asx files that I have run across are just short xml text files that include a URI of the real file which mplayer normally doesn't have porblems with. I did a wget on the URL that used to work, then cat'd the file and sure enough, embedded in the file was the info on the real location of the stream. I pointed MPlayer at that, and Shazam!
So... it would appear I resinstalled MPlayer for nothing... unless I the codec package is not included in the knoppmyth distro?
-Jeff