[MPlayer-users] Re: Realaudio dump broken?

[Sascha Sommer]

> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Viti Davide wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I installed a backport of mplayer on my debian woody system; I can
> > download a realaudio rstp stream from the bbc using the "dumpstream"
> > option but the file I get can be played just within mplayer... If I try
> > to open it with realplayer nothing gets played and realplayer seems to
> > be waiting forever.
> > I searched for something similar on Google
> > (http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2003-July/035723.html)
> > where I found a message explaining the same problem but without a
> > solution; can anyone put some light on this??
> >
> > Thanx in advance
> >
> > Davide
> >
>
> I've tested it with
>
>   rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/radio2/live/r2_dsat_g2.ra
>
> The dumped file doesn't play for two reasons:
> 1. RealPlayer requires the stream duration value in the Media Properties
> Header when playing a RealMedia File. But this value is set to 0 for a
live
> stream.
> 2. RealPlayer only plays silence when the mime type in the Media
Properties
> Header is set to "audio/x-pn-multirate-realaudio-live". It has to be
replaced
> by "audio/x-pn-realaudio".
>
> The appended shell script can be used to convert dumped files into files
that
> can be played with RealPlayer:
>
>   ./realfix.sh outfile < infile
>
> It can also be used to fix the stream while it is dumped (using bash):
>
>   mkfifo stream.pipe
>   ./realfix.sh outfile < stream.pipe &
>   mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile stream.pipe rtsp://<URL> &
>   MPLAYER_PID=$!
>   sleep <SECONDS>
>   kill $MPLAYER_PID
>
> The last command ends the recording.
Would you mind if I add your script to the TOOLS directory?

Sascha