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From: Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:37:01
Message-Id: 20080229113645.068243d2@ilievnet.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online? by Chuanwen Wu
1 On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:43:43 +0800
2 "Chuanwen Wu" <wcw8410@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Hi,
5 > I want to use mplayer to play files on the ftp server. For example, I
6 > have some files on: ftp://user:passwd@myftpserv/thefile. Now I want to
7 > play it, but I won't need to download all the file first then play it.
8 > Is there any advice?
9 >
10 > Thanks in advanced!
11
12
13 I'm not sure if mplayer supports authentication, but you could try to
14 "pipe" the output from another client. Something like:
15
16 curl --auth-options ftp:/exemple.com/patth/file | mplayer -
17
18 or
19
20 wget --auth-options ftp://exemple.com/patth/file -O - | mplayer -
21
22 --
23 Best regards,
24 Daniel
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