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Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
>
> > Download the mplayerplug-in package.  There are 
> > several different versions.  I am using version 3.31.  
> 
> I found version 2.66 at linuxpackages, for SW 10.0.

Linuxpackages also has version 3.31

> which means it needs to play movies and access URLs 
> by name not number 

It appears that the mplayer plug-in handles all the 
interfacing and then pipes the stream to mplayer.

> the uclibc version (DNS problem) 

DNS is not a problem with the plug-in.  It appears
to do everything (DNS, playlist, etc.) before calling
mplayer.

> so please do provide your script.  

The name of the script is play.  Execute play instead
of mplayer.  It parses the parameters and, if it finds 
a URL, it uses nslookup to change it to a dotted quad.  
It then calls mplayer (using the modified parameters).
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n=$#
[ $n = 0 ] && exit
TARGET=`echo $* | cut -d" " -f$n`
let n=n-1
[ $n -ge 1 ] && PARAM=`echo $* | cut -d" " -f1-$n`

echo $TARGET | grep -q :// ; case $? in 0)

START=`echo $TARGET | cut -d/ -f1`
URL=`echo $TARGET | cut -d/ -f3`
END=`echo $TARGET | cut -d/ -f4-` 

n=`echo $URL | cut -b1`
case $n in 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9) ;;

*) echo $URL | grep -q :; case $? in 0)
     URL1=`echo $URL | cut -d: -f1`
     URL2=`echo $URL | cut -d: -f2`
     NUM=`nslookup $URL1 | sed 1,4d | sed 's~Address: *~~'`

     TARGET="$START//$NUM:$URL2/$END";;
   *)
     NUM=`nslookup $URL | sed 1,4d | sed 's~Address: *~~'`
     TARGET="$START//$NUM/$END"
   esac;;
esac;;
esac 

exec /usr/local/bin/mplayer $PARAM $TARGET
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Cheers,
Steven