[MPlayer-users] No stream playing over proxy

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:55:18PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> What is wrong here, since the proxy works (see below)?
> 
> In principle, I should use a playlist:
> 
> >$ mplayer -playlist http_proxy://localhost:3128/http://www.tv-radio.com/station/france_musique_mp3/france_musique_mp3-32k.m3u

That syntax is for a one-shot http proxy, it only applies to the following
URL, not any others (in particular not the URLs inside the playlist).
If you want a proxy globally, set the (AFAIK standard) http_proxy
environment variable.