[MPlayer-users] More on dumpstream..

[SoulEdge]

Hi.

My network connection is too slow to smoothly play the videos from
www.apple.com/trailers. So, i'm trying to get them on disk
for playback.

Now, mplayerplug-in can play them allright, i can look into the 
source for the webpage and feed mplayer the movie, and it seems
that the file the page links to is just a 'reference file' which redirects
MPlayer to the real stream. This also works nicely.

Now, i've been unable to get that stream. MPlayer identifies several
'channels' in that MOV stream, if i open it with  -vid 0 -aid 1 it plays
correctly, but i still can't get it to dump to disk! all i can get is this
'reference file' which, curiously, exits with a 'file not found' error
when i try to use it. I've tried:

mplayer -dumpstream <URL>

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Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer dev-CVS-030301-11:42-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel Celeron Covington/Pentium II Deschutes,Tonga/Pentium II Xeon 
(Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX

Reading config file /usr/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /home/user/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/user/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open 
'/home/user/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 135 video codecs
Font /home/user/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid root or 
/dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/user/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or 
directory
Can't open input config file /usr/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or 
directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing 
http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/0391736c636417/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f668c9329e0375e8177dec64930b38a50a78d709/X2-tlrD_320.mov
Resolving a772.g.akamai.net ...
Connecting to server a772.g.akamai.net[200.51.197.140]:80 ...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Connected to server: a772.g.akamai.net
Stream not seekable!
Core dumped ;)

Exiting... (End of file)

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(note: it starts and exits in just a couple of seconds.)


mplayer -dumpstream -vid 0 -aid 1 <URL>





Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer dev-CVS-030301-11:42-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel Celeron Covington/Pentium II Deschutes,Tonga/Pentium II Xeon 
(Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX

Reading config file /usr/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /home/user/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/user/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open 
'/home/user/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 135 video codecs
Font /home/user/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid root or 
/dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/user/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or 
directory
Can't open input config file /usr/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or 
directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing 
http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/0391736c636417/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f668c9329e0375e8177dec64930b38a50a78d709/X2-tlrD_320.mov
Resolving a772.g.akamai.net ...
Connecting to server a772.g.akamai.net[200.51.197.134]:80 ...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Connected to server: a772.g.akamai.net
Stream not seekable!
Core dumped ;)

Exiting... (End of file)

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mplayer -dumpvideo <URL> <-- this works, but the raw video is kinda useless...

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mplayer -dumpvideo -dumpaudio .. <-- works but i'm not even gonna say anything
about the dumpfile.

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Is there any other way to use dumpstream that i'm missing?

Thanks for any useful advice/help 


Damian