> Alternatively, you can try 'mplayer -playlist > http://www.abc.net.au/broadbandnews/20040323_1400/news.smil'; that might > work, but AFAIK no guarantee. > there was not a smil parser in the playtreeparser.c code. so the -playlist option did not help. I have written a simple patch and submitted it to the devel mailing list. thanks