ffplay with cookies

Question

Normally with ffplay you can play a video like this

ffplay http://easy.com/foo.flv

However I have come across a video that requires a cookie. wget has no trouble with this

wget http://hard.com/foo.flv --load-cookies cookies.txt

Can ffplay play a video that requires a cookie?

Based on pogorskiy’s answer this works

ffplay -headers $'Cookie: sbsession=sbg&sbuser=lorem\r\n' http://hard.com/foo.flv

Answer 1

There is an option -headers in the http protocol. Thus we could write

ffplay http://easy.com/foo.flv -headers "Cookie: MyCookies"

But ffmpeg requires sequence \r\n in additional headers. Otherwise you will get a warning

[http @ 011701a0] No trailing CRLF found in HTTP header.

and the headers are added incorrectly. We can not pass properly CRLF sequence through command line. I think the only solution would be to fix http.c so that the pre-defined characters is replaced by CRLF.