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On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I want to use mplayer to play files on the ftp server. For example, I |
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> have some files on: ftp://user:passwd@myftpserv/thefile. Now I want |
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> to play it, but I won't need to download all the file first then play |
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> it. Is there any advice? |
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You have to download it as it has to be in RAM before mplayer can use |
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it. |
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And you have to download the whole thing as it's a container file, not a |
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stream. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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