[MPlayer-users] Mplayer and included support for tivo:// command line option

[Ciper .]

I'm interested in the feature of mplayer that allows streaming of TY files 
directly from a Tivo. I had another machine with an older version of Mplayer 
and this worked properly. It seems that along the way the person compiling 
the windows binaries on the site forgot to link the library. I couldnt find 
a place on the site to report this issue. If you read the document here 
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html you can see this option 
listed under the synopsis section.


Here is what I am typing and the error I receive.

mplayer tivo://x.x.x.51/list

Playing tivo://x.x.x.51/list.
File not found: 'x.x.x.51/list'
Failed to open tivo://x.x.x.51/list.



I have TivoWebPlus (a webserver on the tivo) which shows a list of videos 
currently on the Tivo. Next to each recording is a "View" link which points 
to an ASX file. This launches Windows Media Player which is successfully 
able to play the video.

While watching a streamed video in WMP I selected View-Properties to show 
the fsid address of the file which was tivo://x.x.x.51/3613939

I then tried "mplayer tivo://x.x.x.51/3613939" and got the same error as 
above.

I have also posted this question to the DealDataBase forums which offer 
support for Tivo video extraction. Here is the link to the specific post 
from me http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53502


Thanks for your help

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