newbie: trying to use pipe or awk to work with mplayer
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cat playlist | xargs -i mplayer {} works like champs!
One thing I noticed, however, mplayer appeared to play in the background hence I was unable to end the stream with the "q" key (had to use ctrl-C then you will see mplayer's PID stuck in ps and can't be kill). Have you experienced that issue?
As for the structure of the playlist, consider the following example:
Can't say I've used mplayer to play urls at all, I'm afraid, so
wouldn't know how it handles this. Does mplayer terminate when
you invoke that individually from the command-line? E.g.,
mplayer http://scfire-dtc-aa01.stream.aol.com/stream/1005
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