[MPlayer-users] Can't play stream file

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 05:45:00PM +0100, Andy Furniss wrote:
> 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.

It works with youtube if you e.g. use youtube-dl to get the URL of
the actual video stream.
But if you just throw some HTML content at it like in above case it
won't work (never did, almost certainly never will), it's not a web
browser after all.