$ mplayer http://www.cbc.ca/livemedia/cbcr1-toronto.m3u
MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium M Banias (Family: 6, Stepping: 5)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
Playing http://www.cbc.ca/livemedia/cbcr1-toronto.m3u.
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.cbc.ca
Resolving www.cbc.ca for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.cbc.ca[209.123.81.167]:80 ...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Connected to server: www.cbc.ca
Exiting... (End of file)
[dan@laptop:~] $