[MPlayer-users] End of stream detection ? broken?

[Michael Lapsley]

I'm having a trouble with this:

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile _40386563_mol.rm \\
    pnm://rm.bbc.net.uk/news/media/audio/40386000/rm/_40386563_mol.rm

(version 1.0pre6) both linux and win32

What happens is that the stream downloads until the very end, when it hangs for
a minute or two, then

....
input_pnm: read error
....

scrolls past, occasionally with a percentage.

The save file then grows rapidly without limit until the file system is full.

Using mplayer -ao pcm -aofile .... etc shows exactly the same behaviour.

Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,

Michael