[MPlayer-users] stream no workie?

[Michael A. Peters]

[mpeters at 12-233-80-32 mpeters]$ wget
http://fredrik.hubbe.net:80/plugger/test.mov |mplayer -cache 8192 -

results in :
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    Falling back on trying to parse playlist
-...
============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported
=============
=== If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the
author! ===

yet - wget file && mplayer file works perfectly.

I also tried (in fact tried first)
mplayer http://fredrik.hubbe.net:80/plugger/test.mov

It pops open a window, and shows a bunch of data -

CVID: corruption 7584 (QT/AVI) != 11866690 (CV)79   0%  0%  0.4% 0 0 0%
CVID: END INFO chunk size 7584 cvid size1 11866690 cvid size2 0
CVID: corruption 7604 (QT/AVI) != 11866690 (CV)80   0%  0%  0.4% 0 0 0%
CVID: END INFO chunk size 7604 cvid size1 11866690 cvid size2 0
CVID: corruption 7604 (QT/AVI) != 11604546 (CV)81   0%  0%  0.4% 0 0 0%
CVID: END INFO chunk size 7604 cvid size1 11604546 cvid size2 0
CVID: corruption 7608 (QT/AVI) != 1900544 (CV) 82   0%  0%  0.4% 0 0 0%
CVID: strip overflow (more than 32)
CVID: corruption 7608 (QT/AVI) != 0 (CV)   83/ 83   0%  0%  0.4% 0 0 0%
CVID: strip overflow (more than 32)
A:  14.9 V:  15.0 A-V: -0.019 ct: -0.172   84/ 84   0%  0%  0.4% 0 0 0%

but doesn't play. Yet the file itself plays fine if I download it and
then play it.

What's going on?
Am I just not understanding how it is suppose to work?

mplayer 0.90rc4 compiled with 
--with-win32libdir=/usr/local/lib/win32codec-0.90 --enable-qtx-codecs
--with-reallibdir=/usr/local/lib/rp9codecs
--with-xanimlibdir=/usr/local/lib/xanimdlls --enable-mad
--with-xvidcore=/usr/lib/libxvidcore.a --enable-xmms
--with-xmmsplugindir=/usr/local/lib/xmms
--with-xmmslibdir=/usr/local/lib --enable-gui
(qt6 and qt extras in win32codec-0.90)

-- 
Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com>