[MPlayer-dev-eng] willing to pay for RTMP support

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 03:32:14PM -0500, compn wrote:
> >You should be able to play rtmp via
> >mplayer ffmpeg://rtmp://URL
> 
> i thought it would be better to add -network switch
> mplayer -network ffmpeg http://blah
> so that urls do not require ffmpeg:// each time.

You're overcomplicating things.
ffmpeg:// will only be necessary to force the ffmpeg support
where MPlayer has has its own implementation like http.
Everything else should just the added to the list of formats
supported by the stream (currently contains only "ffmpeg", NULL).