[Mplayer-dev-eng] asf streaming playback from a mms server

[roy d'souza]

Hi tibor, Jason,

Thanks a lot for your advice and tips. Well I filnally
got it working.

About using wget is okay. But I have to getthe file
from an MMS server. 

But now it is working thanks to the advice u guys
gave.

Thanks a ton

Roy


--- Balazs Tibor <tibcu at sch.bme.hu> wrote:
> Hi Roy!
> 
> > hey thanks for those tips,
> 
> :-)
> 
> > But here is the catch. I don't want to download
> the
> > whole asf file to disk. I want it to stream to the
> > standard output so that I can pipe it into
> mplayer.
> 
> If I know well, asfrecodrer can't send the stream to
> stdout only to a
> file.
> 
> But there's a trick :-)
> 
> 1. create a fifo (man fifo)
> 2. create a symlink to this fifo in the directory
> where you want to run
> asfrecorder and name this link as the filename in
> the URL
> 3. run
> asfrecorder URL >/dev/null &
> in that dir where you created the symlink
> 4. run
> cat the_name_of_the_symlink | mplayer -vo
> yourfavouritevo -
> 
> an there you are :-)
> 
> NOTE: there IS a - mark at the and of commandline
> (it's the filename)
> 
> (maybe you have to kill asfrecorder if you quit
> mplayer before the end of
> the stream)
> 
> (if you quited once from mplayer you wouldn't be
> able to start it again
> before killing asfrecorder)
> 
> (and you can't seek forward or backward, pausing
> also won't work, but you
> still can stop mplayer process with ctrl-z and
> continue it with fg)
> 
> NOTE2: if URL doesn't contain the real filename,
> first run asfrecorder
> URL, see what the filename will be, delete it, then
> create the link
> 
> It WORKED for me! :-)
> 
> Good Luck
> Tibcu
> 
> 
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