[MPlayer-users] dumped realmedia stream not playable with realplayer

[Lev Givon]

Received from Nico Sabbi on Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:59:58AM EDT:
>  Lev Givon wrote:
> 
> > I recently used the dumpstream feature of mplayer 1.0rc1 (run on
> > Linux) to save a live realmedia stream (containing both audio and
> > video). When I try to play the resulting file with realplayer
> > 10.0.8.805 on Linux the player refuses to play the file and displays
> > no error; on Mac OSX 10.4.9 (Intel), realplayer 10.1.0.490 plays a
> > brief instant of the file and then stops the playback with no
> > error. The file can be replayed without any issue using mplayer itself
> > (both on Linux and on Mac OSX). Is there some way to fix the file such
> > that it can be played with other players that understand the realmedia
> > codecs?
> >  
>  we develop and support mplayer, not realplayer

Should I understand the above response as attributing the stream
dumping results I observed to a problem with realplayer (or perhaps
the software used to generate the stream I recorded)? That I was able
to view the live stream with various realmedia-compatible players but
can only view the saved stream with mplayer suggests that mplayer is
not dumping the realmedia stream properly.

							L.G.