Watching Live Internet Video on Linux With mplayer

I think mplayer is amazing.

With rtmpdump and mplayer you can watch internet streaming video. This great post shows the command for several sources like CSPAN, BBC, etc.

I would add my own recipe to listen to live NPR:

First create a playlist file (nprlive24.pls) with the following content:

NumberOfEntries=1
File1=http://npr.ic.llnwd.net/stream/npr_live24
Title1=NPR 24 Hour Program Stream

Then just run mplayer:

mplayer -capture -quiet -nocache  -prefer-ipv4 -playlist  nprlive24.pls

Don’t you love mplayer?