[MPlayer-users] Can't play stream file

[Andy Furniss]

Masaru Nomiya wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using MPlayer SVN-r34971-4.6.
> 
> I try to play stream files, but can't.
> 
> Here is the result;
> 
> $ mplayer -v http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiMK9e0h6YE

Did mplayer ever work with youtube - I didn't think it did, but could be
wrong, there are several different quality files per url on youtube.

Use youtube-dl to download the file and mplayer to play that.