[MPlayer-users] Autodetection of .flv files

[Thomas Hellström]

mail at kraymer.de wrote:
>> Hi, all!
>>
>> Is there a way to have mplayer autodetect that an flv file is an flv
>> file without its file name extension?
>> This is useful when playing a file directly from a remoe url for
>> example  from youtube.
>> Usually those files aren't recognized by mplayer unless the .flv
>> extension is present, but wget, for example, will recognize the file as
>> "video/flv".
>>
>> One option would be to have mplayer fall back to flv if it can't detect
>>  the video format.
>>     
>
> I don't think you can change mplayer's /autodetection/ on the commandline.
> However, if you know that the file is flv, add -vc ffflv to your command
> line, it will force mplayer to use ffmpeg's flv codec.
>
>   
Hi!
Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it doesn't help.
mplayer says
Video: no video
tries to play some audio and then crashes.

/Thomas



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