[MPlayer-users] mplayer unable to dump file

[Ambrosius Nihilo]

Dear All,

I am trying to record off of a radio stream (for example Austrian Public 
Radio).

The command

mplayer -noframedrop -dumpfile /home/my-directory/sound-file.ram -dumpstream 
mms://stream4.orf.at/oe1-wort

does the trick beautifully on my old computer.

However, on my new computer where I installed mplayer via Debian (Ubuntu 
Linux Dapper) as opposed to from source (my old computer) [I ran into 
difficulties doing it by hand on my new computer, so I'd rather not 
re-install from source], the same command does not work and produces the 
following error message:

Stream not seekable!
Cannot open dump file.

mplayer works fine otherwise, and the command

mplayer mms://stream4.orf.at/oe1-wort

plays back Austrian Public Radio without a hitch. Could anyone help, please?

Stefan
(Vancouver, Canada)