[MPlayer-users] -dumpstream with duration?

[Bryan Field-Elliot]

We'd like to use mplayer to dump a video stream for a specified number
of seconds (i.e. 15 seconds), and then exit. I have not found a way to
do this yet, dumpstream will by default keep on dumping until the stream
ends. Is there a command-line option I missed somewhere?

i.e. we'd want to do this:

mplayer http://some.url.com/motion.asf -dumpstream -dumpfile
somefile.asf -duration 15

(dump the stream, and then exit after 15 seconds)

Thank you,

Bryan