[MPlayer-users] why can I watch it with gnome-mplayer but not with mplayer?

[Kevin DeKorte]

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On 03/02/2011 03:48 PM, Mahdiyar Noorbala wrote:
> Hi
> 
> This should be a very elementary question. I have a URL like
> http://SERVERNAME/file.wmv. When I enter it in "Open Location" in
> gnome-mpLayer it connects to the server and plays the stream. But when
> I run
> 
> mplayer "URL"
> 

My guess is that the URL is a playlist... try this

mplayer -playlist "URL"

I would guess that would fix it.

Kevin
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