i am trying to use mplayer to play a stream:

rtmpdump -v -r rtmp://stream2.france24.yacast.net/france24_live/en -a france24_live/en -s http://www.france24.com/en/sites/all...ash/player.swf -p http://www.france24.com/en/aef_playe...rance24_player -y f24_liveen | mplayer -

Although i can see the live stream being read in x-term, mplayer process is launched but its window is hidden for some reason.

this stream plays find with vlc on my windows machine with

rtmpdump -v -r rtmp://stream2.france24.yacast.net/france24_live/en -a france24_live/en -W http://www.france24.com/en/sites/all...ash/player.swf -p http://www.france24.com/en/aef_playe...rance24_player -y f24_liveen | "C:\Program Files (x86)\Media\VLC\vlc.exe" -