mplayer 1.0_pre4-r7, 1.0_pre5-r2 and 1.0_pre5-r4 fails to play URLs. The problem is fixed in the current CVS of mplayer. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mplayer http://mirror.fluendo.com:8800/ Actual Results: Playing http://mirror.fluendo.com:8800/. Option stream url: This URL doesn't have a port part. Option stream url: This URL doesn't have a hostname part. [file] No filename Failed to open http://mirror.fluendo.com:8800/ Expected Results: mplayer attempts to decode the theora stream. Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-amd64-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r1, 2.6.8.1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8.1 x86_64 4 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-pipe -O3" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa amd64 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt encode esd flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww matrox mikmod motif mpeg multilib ncurses nls nogcj oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang speex spell ssl tcpd theora truetype xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
need network USE flag. einfo says so as does the 3 bug reports already posted on the situation.
Out of the spirt of correctness, the network use flag should be expanded or contracted. It seems like playing URLs in mplayer should be enabled by default, much like viewing non-local URLs in a web browser.