[MPlayer-users] MPlayer & ssh.....

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:35:16PM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> On 3/12/08, John Stebbins <stebbins at jetheaddev.com> wrote:
> > Otherwise, I think you need to look for some software that can stream
> > you webcam over the net.
> > I'm afraid I don't have any suggestions for this. Never done it myself.
> 
> mencoder+pipe+netcat = poor man's stream server

MPlayer used to have an optional component in the TOOLS directory for
a very insecure remote "stream server" which allows a remote MPlayer
to access any MPlayer-accepted url on the server machine. This
includes files, dvd://, vcd://, and of course all the network
protocols and everything else.

Not sure if it still works. I tried it once with my laptop over lan
and was very pleased with the results, but for serious public-network
use you'd need to wrap it with proper security (perhaps tunnelling
over ssh).

Rich