[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [NEW PATCH] ftp support

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 08:18:47PM +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:
> Hi Bernd Ernesti,
> 
> on Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:04:00 +0200 you wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > first of all, I don't understand why mplayer needs such support at all.
> The only alternative is wget ... | mplayer. But you can't seek (and need
> wget ;)

'Seeking' on an ftp server like this is highly abusive...

> > And then, why is it enabled by default?
> 1. it doesn't depend on something special
> 2. it should work for everybody.
> 3. It must be tested
> 
> > Oh, and using 'nospam at nowhere.com' is not a good idea. Thats a valid
> > domain name.
> I think whatever you put it will become "a valid domain name" sooner
> or later. Anyway that's just unimportant.

Eh? Just don't use a valid tld. a at b is a nice choice. Or
root at localhost.

Rich