How do you play http in a video stream?

[Puppy fam]

I was on the Ubuntu IRC and asked this question, and a guy was pretty sure you could not do this, but I wanted to make sure.

The media player I use is VLC. VLC supports many different formats, but not http in a video format. I am wondering if another media player would support it or if this is just impossible.

Thanks,
-Puppy fam

[fuscia]

give me a link and i'll try it in mplayer.

[mech7]

http is a protocol not a file format.. default videos play in firefox with me on ubuntu think it uses totem not sure.

[fuscia]

http is a protocol not a file format.. default videos play in firefox with me on ubuntu think it uses totem not sure.

if i want to listen to streaming radio, i just enter mplayer hxxp://stupidradiostation.com/stupid.pls in a terminal and it plays. i'm guessing the op is asking about doing the same with video.

[Puppy fam]

The website I am having problems with is cnbc.com. Their videos are just a blank screen with no sound.

A random URL of one of the videos:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=284419133

Thanks for the help,
-Puppy fam

[saulgoode]

I consider it to be in extremely poor taste for a website to stream media content without the visitor requesting it.