> 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? > > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- wcw -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list