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 > > > local machine anyway. > > > > But I can save the time of downing the file and when I want to > > watch any movie, I don't need to wait. > > You can start the download and start mplayer on the (incompletely) > downloaded file. > > Uwe > > --
I do this all the time over NFS with Matroska-files that are still being created by my server. If you can't navigate within the movie, add -idx or --force-idx to create a new index on the fly.
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