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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)

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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.
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I had another thought,
Code:
mplayer http://user:password@servername.com/music/file.mp3
may work (if you use the right info ).
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fom the mplayer man page:

Code:
mplayer -user <username> -passwd <password> <network file url>
Hope this helps
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Yes it works. i access my sport streaming site where the streams are on h264 via mplayer.
 
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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.
 
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