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 - -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
