Mplayer stream file while downloading

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account. Now I have to open file manager or another terminal to find the downloading. Can I play the downloading video with mplayer in the youtube-dl command? Can somebody help me? The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:. The hardest part of actually ripping a stream in this way is discovering this URL, as sites often don't make this immediately available. I'd recommend the Firefox extension UnPlug for this purpose, as it can often discover the stream URL for you, even if it is unable to do the whole ripping process.

You can then copy and paste that URL into your mplayer -dumpstream command, and you'll get the media file. Maybe the best way to deal with the issue is to gain patience or plan more ahead No, because Torrent download files in chunks and not sequentially, so you cannot be sure to download the various pieces of the file in the required order to view it.

I watched part of p movie with very little waiting on beginning and flawless playing latter. Source: Youtube tutorial. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Can I watch p torrents while downloading? Ask Question. Asked 10 years ago. Active 7 months ago. Viewed 52k times. Improve this question. This question would probably be a better fit on superuser. I wouldn't say this is off—topic; but in its current form the real question is actually quite cross-platform. I'm asking for an OS X solution. This video is great, atleast for windows users youtube.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. We need a torrent client that can download the movie file parts in order, not randomly. We need a player that supports playing incomplete files. The torrent client Previously I used BitThief. You can see that while downloading it downloads as a normal torrent client — the parts are downloaded randomly: But there is an option: After that we can see that the rest of the file is being downloaded sequentially blue — downloaded, green — requested : The connection speed How can we tell if the speed is good enough?

By the estimated time of arrival ETA : If the movie is 1. The player The player is and always has been mplayer I don't know why the domain is Hungarian low cpu usage plays almost anything although very rarely it crashes and burns lots of options boosting volume, control of cache on streams, indexing View Public Profile.

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