[MPlayer-users] rtsp stream doesnt play from quicktime mov live.com

[Bob Davis]

Bob Davis wrote:

> So I dont understand that much about streams
> but it is:
> rtsp
> mov container
> live.com something


>
> mplayer -v -console rtsp://136.244.12.63/wcni2.sdp

I found the problem:
I needed to use the rtsp-stream-over-tcp option. I assume there was a 
problem with my firewall that converting from udp to tcp somehow fixed. 
I havent investigated why this is true yet.

The following works and records the stream.

mplayer -vo null -ao pcm:file=wcni.wav -rtsp-stream-over-tcp 
rtsp://136.244.12.63/wcni2.sdp

The following perl script on windows2k/xp cygwin perl does the time 
record that I wanted:

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $len = $ARGV[0];
open MP, "|mplayer -slave -vo null -ao pcm:file=wcni.wav 
-rtsp-stream-over-tcp rtsp://136.244.12.63/wcni2.sdp";
sleep $len;
print MP "quit\n";
system "lame wcni.wav wcni.mp3";
unlink "wcni.wav";
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I also use cron and crontab from cygwin and have a mini tivo system.

bob