can ffmpeg stream video?

[navedjobs]

Hi , i m java developer and need a help , can FFmpeg stream video from youtube or from any URL via http ?
if yes , than the receive data is in raw format and need to be encoded in order to view or it is full video ready to play ?

[rogerdpack]

it can stream to an rtmp server or via udp to "some host"

[navedjobs]

it can stream to an rtmp server or via udp to "some host"

so in other words ffplay.exe cannot stream youtube videos ..is that correct ?
because i have tried using

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ffplay [youtube video URL]

and it shows an error Invalid data found when processing input

[rogerdpack]

I know it is "possible" to download files from youtube, I'm not sure if ffmpeg allows you to setup the url quite right so that this is possible, however. It might be interesting to try.

ffplay -i "http://cleaneditingmovieplayer.inet2.org/releases/dvd_isos/Sintel_NTSC-title2.handbrake.m4v" works anyway.