Group: linux.gentoo.user
From: Alan McKinnon
Date: Friday, February 29, 2008 1:10 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to use mplayer to play files on the ftp server. For example, I
> have some files on: ftp://user:passwd@myftpserv/thefile. Now I want
> to play it, but I won't need to download all the file first then play
> it. Is there any advice?

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.



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