On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > Hi, > I want to use mplayer to play files on the ftp server. For example, I > have some files on: ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/thefile. Now I want > to play it, but I won't need to download all the file first then play > it. Is there any advice?
You have to download it as it has to be in RAM before mplayer can use it. And you have to download the whole thing as it's a container file, not a stream. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
