Can mplayer play an ftp file?

kornerr · 03-10-2006, 05:58 AM

I have access to an ftp server, can I watch movies from there with the help of mplayer without downloading them?

Thanks.

gilead · 03-10-2006, 06:02 AM

According to the mplayer man page, it looks like you can access a file via ftp. The data is still downloaded to your system though so if you're doing this to save on download limits it's not much good. Did you just want to save the time of the intermediate step of downloading the file?

Code:

mplayer [mms[t]|http|http_proxy|rt[s]p|ftp|udp]:// [user:passwd@]URL[:port] [options]

jlliagre · 03-10-2006, 06:05 AM

You obviously need to download the files (i.e. the movie data) to play them.

I guess what you really want is the files not to be stored persistently to the file system (remove them after play) or not to be stored at all and be played on the fly, which seems doable to as mplayer handle URLs as a parameter.

kornerr · 03-10-2006, 07:54 AM

Code:

kornerr@kornerr:/tmp/USERTMP$ mplayer ftp:// anonymous@10.104.4.253/video/1/Hot_Shots\!/Hot_Shots\!.avi:666
MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.6 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 9)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2


Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Playing ftp://.
[ftp] Bad url
Failed to open ftp://

Playing anonymous@10.104.4.253/video/1/Hot_Shots!/Hot_Shots!.avi:666.
File not found: 'anonymous@10.104.4.253/video/1/Hot_Shots!/Hot_Shots!.avi:666'
Failed to open anonymous@10.104.4.253/video/1/Hot_Shots!/Hot_Shots!.avi:666


Exiting... (End of file)

Code:

kornerr@kornerr:/tmp/USERTMP$ mplayer ftp://10.104.4.253/video/1/Hot_Shots\!/Hot_Shots\!.avi:666
MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.6 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 9)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2


Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Playing ftp://10.104.4.253/video/1/Hot_Shots!/Hot_Shots!.avi:666.
Connecting to server 10.104.4.253[10.104.4.253]:21 ...
[ftp] command 'SIZE video/1/Hot_Shots!/Hot_Shots!.avi:666
' failed: 550 video/1/Hot_Shots!/Hot_Shots!.avi:666: No such file or directory

[ftp] command 'RETR video/1/Hot_Shots!/Hot_Shots!.avi:666
' failed: 550 video/1/Hot_Shots!/Hot_Shots!.avi:666: No such file or directory

Failed to open ftp://10.104.4.253/video/1/Hot_Shots!/Hot_Shots!.avi:666


Exiting... (End of file)

jlliagre · 03-10-2006, 08:47 AM

What is your video file url (one that works in a browser) ?

kornerr · 03-10-2006, 10:08 AM

ftp://10.104.4.253/video/1/Hot_Shots\!/Hot_Shots\!.avi
it's a local address within my "provider space".