How to use mplayer with a proxy server

Mplayer use the environment variable http_proxy.

You can force a proxy with the command:

mplayer http_proxy://proxy:8080/http://example.com:80/stream.ogg

If you use ftp proxy, configure wget first:

wget ftp://example.com/file.ogg -O - | mplayer -

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