Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

[Michael Niggli]

Chuanwen Wu wrote:
>>  You have to download it as it has to be in RAM before mplayer can use
>>  it.
>>
>>  And you have to download the whole thing as it's a container file, not a
>>  stream.
>>
> So, you mean mplayer can NOT play stream?
> As far as I know, mplayer can play file on a web(html) site.
> In "man mplayer", I can see that :
>
>        Stream from HTTP:
>        mplayer http://mplayer.hq/example.avi
>
>        Stream using RTSP:
>        mplayer rtsp://server.example.com/streamName
>
> So, I think there may be some ways to play mplayer from the ftp(or
> other protocol).
> Somebody work it out and suggested me to do it like this:
>
> wget ftp://THE_FTPSERVER/1.RM -O - | mplayer -cache 8192 -
>
> But I just failed every time I tried to do it in this way. Can you do
> it successfully?
>

Does the wget itself work, eg. does wget ftp://ftpserver/file.ext 
download your file? If not, you may need to add some quoting... For 
instance, the [ character should be quoted twice, once for the local 
shell and once for the remote server (at least that was the case on a 
quick test I did), so downloading a file called "[.ext" would become

wget 'ftp://ftpserver/\[.ext'

or

wget 'ftp://ftpserver/\[.ext' -O - | mplayer -cache 8192 -

Regards
Michael
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