[MPlayer-users] connection refused

[yyang at commscope.com]

Hi,

I have two Fedora6 machines. One is named server with IP address 
169.254.15.100/16. The other's hostname is workstation with IP address of 
169.254.15.53/16. They can ping each other. My mplayer is v1.0rc1. I can 
play video files (.avi or .MPG) locally on workstation. 

But my goal is to steam the video from this simple network. That is to 
start mplayer on workstation with video file being saved in server. 

The video file (test.MPG) is saved in the server at 
/root/video

On workstation, I typed
mplayer http://server:80/root/video/test.MPG

I got 
Connecting to server 169.254.15.100 [169.254.15.100]:80...
Connect error: Connection refused
File note found '//server:80/root/video/test.MPG'
Failed to open http://server:80/root/video/test.MPG
Existing ...

I got the same error "conenction refused" when I used
mplayer rtsp://...
mplayer ftp://...

I logged on using root.

I have no firewall or any security enabled on any machines. Would you 
please help me?

Thanks,
Frank