newbie: trying to use pipe or awk to work with mplayer
 

Hi,

I have a text file containing the URL I wanted for mplayer to play. Currently, I play those in commend line using the following steps:

1)cat playlist
2)use mouse to highlight the link
3)type: mplayer then click both left/right mouse button

I was hoping if I can do this in comment line without mouse. I've tried the following without luck

(assume there's only 1 address in the text file)

1) cat playlist |mplayer
2) cat playlist |awk '{print $1}'| mplayer

Thank you.

Hard to say w/o knowing the structure of the playlist ....
something like


cat playlist | xargs -i mplayer {}


may work

Hi Tinkster,

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:

Thank you.

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

Yea, in commend line, if you do mplayer <whatever>, you should be able to terminate the program by hitting the "q" key.

Seems like this is mplayer issue more then command line issue, I guess I will figure that out somewhere else :)

Thank you very much, Tinkster.