On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:43:43 +0800
"Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> I want to use mplayer to play files on the ftp server. For example, I
> have some files on: ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/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?
> 
> Thanks in advanced!


I'm not sure if mplayer supports authentication, but you could try to
"pipe" the output from another client. Something like:

curl --auth-options ftp:/exemple.com/patth/file | mplayer -

or

wget --auth-options ftp://exemple.com/patth/file -O - | mplayer -

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Best regards,
Daniel
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