Current mplayer (mine is mplayer-1.0-pre1cvs20031001) cannot play mms stream with multibyte characters in the url. There is a bug in string_utf16() of libmpdemux/asf_mmst_streaming.c: the url encoding code is written for single-byte character only. It just fill a zero byte between every two adjacent bytes of the url string. This is wrong when the url string contains multi-byte characters. My patch is in the attachment, and has been tested working. It uses iconv() to convert the url's encoding to utf-16 correctly. So can this patch be accepted and commit into CVS? patch by Wang WenRui <wangwr@mail.ustc.edu.cn>