Distro hopping again: freespire
Andy Green
andy at warmcat.com
Thu Jul 19 07:38:06 UTC 2007
>> If I remember properly, this is an old problem of yours. But now that
>> you say
>> that server checks for IP, it strikes me that the problem is not with
>> mplayer, but your IP/proxy configuration. Vmware client may have bridged
>> networking activated, and so completely independent network configuration
>> (probably DHCP served), so it just works.
>
> Yes, this is an old problem, and a big problem that I've tried to
> tackle many times. And as I help people at the university move to
> Linux, this is one of only two big problems that we're having in
> getting rid of Windows.
''MPlayer can play files from the network, using the HTTP, FTP, MMS or
RTSP/RTP protocol.
Playing works simply by passing the URL on the command line. MPlayer
honors the http_proxy environment variable, using a proxy if available.
Proxies can also be forced:
mplayer
http_proxy://proxy.micorsops.com:3128/http://micorsops.com:80/stream.asf''
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/streaming.html
If you need to authenticate to the proxy, I guess you need to use the
format:
http_proxy://username:password@proxy:port/mms://blah...
but I never tried it and have nothing to test it on.
-Andy
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