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

2008-03-04 Thread Chuanwen Wu
I have found a way. Just add USE=ftp when emerge mplayer. Then, we can play movie in ftp use mplayer: mplayer ftp://FTP_SERVER/FILE I'm not sure if mplayer supports authentication, but you could try to pipe the output from another client. Something like: curl --auth-options

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

2008-02-29 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Meanwhile, just download the file and play it. What's the problem with that? To view the whole thing from beginning to end all that data would still have to move from the server to your local machine anyway. But I can save the time of downing the file and when I want to watch any movie, I

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

2008-02-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: 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? mplayer can play streams. But the4

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

2008-02-29 Thread Michael Niggli
Chuanwen Wu wrote: 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

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

2008-02-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Meanwhile, just download the file and play it. What's the problem with that? To view the whole thing from beginning to end all that data would still have to move from the server to your local machine anyway. But I can save the time of

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

2008-02-29 Thread Daniel Iliev
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

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

2008-02-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Meanwhile, just download the file and play it. What's the problem with that? To view the whole thing from beginning to end all that data would still have to move from the server to your local machine anyway. But I can save the time of

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

2008-02-29 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Does the wget itself work, eg. does wget ftp://ftpserver/file.ext download your file? Yes, I can see the file after downloading, but mplayer just don't play it. I attach the output below, when I do wget ftp://THE_FTPSERVER/1.RM -O - | mplayer -cache 8192 - below. There are some Chinese

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

2008-02-29 Thread Ed Santiago
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. GNUMP3d is available as a Gentoo package: http://www.gnump3d.org/ You run it

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

2008-02-29 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:58 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Meanwhile, just download the file and play it. What's the problem with that? To view the whole thing from beginning to end all that data would still have to move from the server to your

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

2008-02-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
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:[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? You

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

2008-02-28 Thread Chuanwen Wu
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