[MPlayer-users] BUG - writing to WAV files

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 10/1/05, Neil Sleightholm <neil at x2systems.com> wrote:
>
> I think there is a problem writing to WAV files in post pre7 source
> changes. With pre7 I can run the following and it will write the file
> R2.WAV and terminate when the stream is complete:
>
>     mplayer -vo null -cache 128 -ao pcm:file=r2.wav
> rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio2/r2online_id.rm
>
> With a more recent source the last few seconds of the stream are
> repeated over and over again and the write never terminates.
>
> I have only been able to test this on Windows with a build compiled
> under MinGW. At first I thought it was just my build but I have found
> the same problem with a build from
> http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php.
>
> Does anyone else see this problem?

I tested on my Linux machine, and I don't run into that problem (with
a DVD source at least, the link you gave doesn"t work here). Please
test with other sources, and maybe without the "-cache" option.

Guillaume
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