[MPlayer-users] Playing Real Video?

[Naota]

petri.kanerva at surfeu.fi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
>>I just had to do 'mplayer
>>rtsp://streams2.omroep.nl/nps/dekortefilm/filmbank/cityatnight.rm'
>>
>>Why do you think
>>cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/nps/dekortefilm/filmbank/cityatnight.rm
>>wouldn't play?
> 
> 
> I'd say it's coz of the cgi-bib "/streams?" part. As the rest seems to be
> a parameter for it. But it works when there is a direct link to the
> stream, not through a cgi-program. It might do a redirect or something
> mplayer doesn't know how to handle.
> 
>  Petri
> 

I see what you're saying now.  I wonder if there is a page full of 
nothing but lists of pure stream links :)  If there were, I'd make a big 
play list, allowing it to act as a screensaver.

Naota