[MPlayer-users] Is there any way I can point mplayer directly to an IP address + port?

[cga2000]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:34:44PM EST, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:56:13PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > Occasionally I use a web browser + the mplayer plugin to play a radio
> > stream. 
> > 
> > The problem is that some sites give you a hard time finding the actual
> > url of the stream you are playing.
> 
> Huh? You haven't seen "a hard time" yet...
> You simply have an URL like
> http://viphttp.yacast.fr/V4/player_radiofrance/index.html?id=fmusique
> the part after id= is used to load an js file:
> http://viphttp.yacast.fr/V4/player_radiofrance/fmusique.js
> (none of the code for either of these steps is really obfuscated or
> anything)
> which in turn references
> http://viphttp.yacast.fr/V4/player_radiofrance/fmusique.asx
> which you can either play with -playlist or you extract the url:
> mms://viptvr.yacast.net/tvr_francemusiques2

Thanks much.