[MPlayer-users] Can't play stream file

[Ron Johnson]

On 05/29/2012 01:12 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 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.

I think we need a Law Of Software Envelopment for the 21st Century:
   Every program attempts to expand until it can surf the web. Those
   programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

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