Distro hopping again: freespire

[Dotan Cohen]

On 19/07/07, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
>
> >> 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

I know that mPlayer advertises MMS support, but it does not work for
me in this case. I don't need to authenticate the user.

Dotan Cohen

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