How to play .mrl files?
 

Today I'm looking for some Wizardry VGM doujinshi in the japanese webpages, and eventually I stuck in this site, this is some kind of OCRemix community seemingly, but the protocol of the music is different.

http://players.music-eclub.com/?acti...&song_id=40538

if you push the http://players.music-eclub.com/img/play_btn.gif You will get a strange file with .mrl extension. I only could assume this file is similar to .asx, but winamp couldnt play it.

I have opened the file with wordpad, and actually it displays this informtion:

<MRML version="1.0">
<SITE src="http://players.music-eclub.com/play_channel_list.php"
title="プレイヤーズ王国"
home="http://players.music-eclub.com/"
search="http://players.music-eclub.com/play_site_search.php">
< CHANNEL title="作品再生">
<BASE src="http://players.music-eclub.com/">

<CLIP src="play_file.php?sid=40538"
title="Wizardry ダイヤモンドの騎士オープニングテーマ"
performer="藤原光成"
iprights=""
text="コピー曲（ダイヤモンドの騎士オープニングテーマ / 羽田 健太郎）"
id="40538"
/>

</BASE>
</CHANNEL>
</SITE>
</MRML>


Could someone help me? how to play or just to stream this music?

Use Internet Explorer and you will be guided to download the player plugin.

wow, thanks for the clue. is there any plugin for firefox? the page doesnt bring me anywhere, I'm still confused.

Apparently MRL stands for Media Resource Loacator. The media player Xine uses them, and is probably the only media player that can read them. To quote the xine man page (man pages are a linux thing)
"MRLs are similar to URLs in your web browser. They describe the media to read from. valid MRLs may be plain file names or one of the following: file://<path> fifo://<path> stdin://mpeg1 or stdin://mpeg2 dvd://VTS_xx_y.VOB vcd://<track number> tcp://<host>:<port> rtp://<host>:<port> udp://<host>:<port>"

There is a xine mozilla plugin, but I've never used xine before, so I'm not really sure how to use it.

It is in fact combo of an ActiveX plugin and an external player;
the player can be launched from Firefox too.
Try downloading and installing the player below.
download.music-eclub.com/midradio/download.php

bump. I have another question, is there a possible way to download the streamed file into hard disk? I'm dial up user, and it's quite painful to listen streamed music with such slow speed.