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On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: |
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> > You have to download it as it has to be in RAM before mplayer can |
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> > use it. |
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> > And you have to download the whole thing as it's a container file, |
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> > not a stream. |
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> So, you mean mplayer can NOT play stream? |
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mplayer can play streams. But the4 thing you are trying to play is not a |
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stream, it is a file. |
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You cannot change the nature of the thing on the ftp server as it is |
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whatever it is. To turn it into a stream, you will have to log into the |
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ftp server and do whatever is necessary there to do that. mplayer is |
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not able to make such changes for very obvious reasons. |
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Meanwhile, just download the file and play it. What's the problem with |
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that? To view the whole thing from beginning to end all that data would |
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still have to move from the server to your local machine anyway. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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