[MPlayer-users] -dumpstream ?!?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 09:20:50AM +0100, [ David ] wrote:
> I intended I've used
> the cmd mplayer -dumpstream...
> 
> $ mplayer rtsp://... -dumpstream -dumpfile file.avi
> 
> I've read the docs and there is written I can read the file.avi only with 
> mplayer. WELL!!! I would like to read it from other players too (for example 
> under the OS windows).
> 
> Now: Do U know the way ?

Yes, don't name a .rm file .avi..... -dumpstream ***DUMPS*** the
stream, which means you get it in whatever format it originally was
in. If your windows players can't play the dumped .rm file, then use
mencoder to reencode after dumping.

Rich