[MPlayer-users] video streaming - PROXY/FIREWALL problem?

[pl]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:35:40PM +0100, Daniel Mladek wrote:

> I'm using mplayer to play "local" movie's files without any problem.
> I'm behind firewall. And I can't play any streaming videos.
> I've also configure my mplayer with --enable-streaming
> when I run eg.

Net support is automatically enabled now.

> I've receive something like this:
> 
> MPlayer CVS-020110-06:00-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

You should try with a more recent version - 1 month is old for mplayer
development and proxy support was added/fixed recently IIRC.  Yet, I did
not made your stream work with a recent cvs trough a squid proxy (it
works fine without, though).


> Using usleep() timing
> Playing http://live.atlas.cz/bonton/fromhell2856.asx
> Connecting to server live.atlas.cz:80 ...
> Connect error : No route to host
> Unable to open URL: http://live.atlas.cz/bonton/fromhell2856.asx
> 
> Exiting... (End of file)
> 
> 
> 
> Yes, I should somehow tell the mplayer about the proxy.
> So, I have set those system environment variables:
> http_proxy=webcache.xxx.xxx.com:8080  (which is our proxy server, rather 
> say webcache only)
> and it doesn't work
It should be 'http_proxy=http://webcache.xxx.xxx.com:8080'

> Also I tried  use *runsocks* (which I sucessfuly using with other 
> programs)...
Not tried.

-- 
Best regards,
  pl