Index: OpenSceneGraph/trunk/src/osgPlugins/ffmpeg/ReaderWriterFFmpeg.cpp
===================================================================
--- OpenSceneGraph/trunk/src/osgPlugins/ffmpeg/ReaderWriterFFmpeg.cpp (revision 9838)
+++ OpenSceneGraph/trunk/src/osgPlugins/ffmpeg/ReaderWriterFFmpeg.cpp (revision 9854)
@@ -46,5 +46,7 @@
             return ReadResult::FILE_NOT_HANDLED;
 
-        const std::string path = osgDB::findDataFile(filename, options);
+        const std::string path = osgDB::containsServerAddress(filename) ?
+            filename :
+            osgDB::findDataFile(filename, options);
 
         if (path.empty())