streaming media with mplayer

filterfann · 03-02-2006, 06:41 PM

I installed mplayer on my Fedora Core 4 machine and it plays most of the files I have tried (i,e, WMA, etc). However, it will still not play on-line content. Does anybody know a solution for this?

thanks:

Filterfann

patrokov · 03-02-2006, 09:56 PM

Some online sources need the -playlist option to work properly. Also, if you're playing an asx file, it is just a script pointing to the real file, so make sure you're getting the right file. Here are two that I often use, so I know they work. If they don't work for you, then it's either your connection or your mplayer setup.

Code:

mplayer -playlist http://rope.wbap.com/wma_player/listen.pls

Code:

mplayer -cache 128 http://70.85.123.2/wrmbM010