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 thing you are trying to play is not a stream, it is a file. You cannot change the nature of the thing on the ftp server as it is whatever it is. To turn it into a stream, you will have to log into the ftp server and do whatever is necessary there to do that. mplayer is not able to make such changes for very obvious reasons. 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. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
