[MPlayer-users] playing files from password required ftp sites?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 31 January 2005 at 01:56, Jason Grindlay wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong here?   I can
> get the file I'm trying to access manually with a ftp
> client but if I try to have mplayer  access it.  I
> have the results below.
> 
> {68} > mplayer -noframedrop -nosound -v -dumpstream
> ftp://username:password@ftp.tripod.com/day36-240x135-mpeg4.mov
> MPlayer 1.0pre3-RPM-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team

This is an ancient version of MPlayer. Please upgrade to 1.0pre6.

[...] 
> And then it just stops and stays there untill I kill
> it (I've tried leave it for hours to make sure it
> wasn't just being slow), a check with netstat shows
> that there is a connection to the ftp site but no data
> is being sent/recieved or else sometimes a few bytes
> are downloaded and then it stops.   I've tried two
> different   ftp sites with videos on them and both had
> the same result.  Any ideas?

I see it's using passive mode. Perhapse the two sites are
unreachable using passive mode and will only work using
PORT command. Have you tried using a regular ftp client
to see which way it is?

R.

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