Howdy all,

I'm trying to stream a video from a local website using elinks, but
elinks is trying to download the entire video before opening it using
mplayer. Is there a way I can pass the url of the link into the
download command instead of the downloaded file?

What I'm trying to open:
<a href="vid.mp4">Vid</a>

What I currently do:
I highlight that link and hit Enter. The dialog pops up and asks if I
want to open with "/usr/bin/mplayer %". I select Open. Then it starts
downloading the full video file. I have to wait for the entire file to
download before it opens in mplayer :(

What I'd like to happen:
When I hit Enter, I'd like to run "/usr/bin/mplayer %url%". That way,
mplayer will just stream the video without waiting for the whole thing
to download :)

How do I do this in elinks?

Thanks!
Daniel
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