[MPlayer-users] Mplayer does play stream

[Ivan Kalvachev]

Niels said:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] Hi again,
>
> I had some problems with playing a stream. I updated mplayer from 0.90
> to  0.90-r1, which is a Gentoo specific upgrade. It works now, the
> stream plays  nicely. I don't know exactly what made this difference.
>
Hmm, what is this about (i'm lazy to browse usermails)?
Is this -r1 some bugfix, or the 0.91 (aka current cvs 0.90)?

> The next problem is saving to a file. I tried fiddling with -dumpstream,
> but  it doesn't work. The output is below, what can I do?
>
It DOES work. "Core dumped ;)" is the message for successful stream
extraction. Just strange sense of humor.

> mplayer
> mms://wm.nvidia.na-regional.speedera.net/wm.nvidia.na-regional/fairy.wmv
>  -dumpstream
>
> MPlayer 0.90-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)
>
> CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP
> Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE
>
> Playing
> mms://wm.nvidia.na-regional.speedera.net/wm.nvidia.na-regional/fairy.wmv
> Resolving wm.nvidia.na-regional.speedera.net ...
> Connecting to server
> wm.nvidia.na-regional.speedera.net[205.252.48.144]:80 ... Stream bitrate
> properties object
> Max bandwidth set to 0
> Resolving wm.nvidia.na-regional.speedera.net ...
> Connecting to server
> wm.nvidia.na-regional.speedera.net[205.252.48.144]:80 ... Cache size set
> to 8192 KBytes
> Connected to server: wm.nvidia.na-regional.speedera.net
> Stream not seekable!
> Core dumped ;)
>

Best Regards
  Ivan Kalvachev