How do I get mplayer to play a video stream from URL
 

I've tried all the frontend players and none of them have been able to play any of the videos from the url. Ive played around with all the settings and still no good. Ive tried it from the command line and it stops after it uploads a small portion of it because the cache is too small. Ive been wanting to do this for a while now but still no luck.

Re: How do I get mplayer to play a video stream from URL
 

mplayer -cache 8192 http://something

Re: How do I get mplayer to play a video stream from URL
 

Thanks for the response. It should have worked except its telling me mplayer crashed and to do some things to debug it. Can I just reinstall it instead?

Re: How do I get mplayer to play a video stream from URL
 

What stream are you trying to watch?

PM me if it's personal. :)

Re: How do I get mplayer to play a video stream from URL
 

I downloaded KMPlayer and used mplayer as frontend and wouldn't play streams so i tried with gstreamer as frontend and it worked.

Re: How do I get mplayer to play a video stream from URL
 

Thanks for your help guys. I'm going to try gstreamer. Is this in any repo where I can download it or do I have to use the xterminal to install. Much appreciated if somebody can tell me how to download the front end.