[MPlayer-users] MPlayer needs realplayer batch/playlist file support

[Kevin DeKorte]

On Saturday 28 August 2004 12:19 pm, The Wanderer wrote:
> Mark Stier wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Firefox/plugger/mplayer don't work here:
> >
> > http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID3529412,00.html
> >
> > That page contains links to .ram files with content like
> >
> >> rtsp://213.200.64.209/tagesschau/realmedia/2004/0828/TV-20040828-1247-22
> >>01.ra.lo.rm --stop--
> >> pnm://video.real.com/gogetg2.ra
>
> These are playlists. Use 'mplayer -playlist <URL>'; I tried a couple of
> those links at random, and they work just fine for me that way,
> including moving on to the second file after finishing with the first.
>
> There is to the best of my knowledge not currently any way to get any of
> the MPlayer browser-plugin wrappers to do this automatically, although a
> I have a couple of ideas I'd need to experiment with for how to work
> around it; your best bet is just to grab the URL and then play it via
> MPlayer directly.

FYI - mplayerplug-in does do playlist parsing please let me know if you find a 
playlist that does not parse correctly and I'll fix it.

Kevin