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

["Chuanwen Wu" <wcw8410@gmail.com>]

>  You have to download it as it has to be in RAM before mplayer can use
>  it.
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>  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?
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