does mplayer (or similar) support http authentication?
 

I'm trying to play mp3s and such from my web server, but they require http authentication. Windows Media Player (in Windows of course) will prompt for a username and password, but I haven't been able to find a media player that does this on my Nokia N810 (using Diablo). Does anyone have any tips? Can mplayer support this?

(For example, I would have a playlist entry with: http://servername.com/music/file.mp3)

--Josh

Re: does mplayer (or similar) support http authentication?
 

A short script that calls wget (to retrieve the file) prior to invoking mplayer would work. Or if seeking isn't important, you could pipe wget to mplayer.

Re: does mplayer (or similar) support http authentication?
 

I had another thought, may work (if you use the right info ;) ).

Re: does mplayer (or similar) support http authentication?
 

fom the mplayer man page:

Hope this helps :)

Re: does mplayer (or similar) support http authentication?
 

Yes it works. i access my sport streaming site where the streams are on h264 via mplayer.

Re: does mplayer (or similar) support http authentication?
 

Thanks, both methods worked. I found embedding the user/password in the http string allows me to make playlists that the graphical "Media Player" (mediaplayer-ui) can play.