[MPlayer-users] Help: Can't play mp3 stream via http

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 02 November 2008 at 10:36, Andrea wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've tried to play the following mp3 stream
> 
> http://france-info1.creacast.com/france-info.mp3
> This is not a file but a live stream of a radio.
> 
> using mplayer, but it does not work. It returns immediately with "End Of File". (at the end the output).
> I did not find anything on google or mplayer documentation about it.
> 
> I can download part of it with wget

Confirmed, albeit with an older snapshot. As a workaround, you can try this:
wget -q -O - http://france-info1.creacast.com/france-info.mp3 | mplayer -cache 2048 -

Regards,
R.

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