[MPlayer-users] Autodetection of .flv files

[Thomas Hellström]

Nico Sabbi wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
>>  
>>
> he's asking for demuxer autodetection, not decoder.
> Add -demuxer lavf, but it may or may not suffice
Nope. unfortunately it doesn't help either.
/Thomas

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