[MPlayer-users] How to extract a .WAV file from part of a very long dump file

[Martin McCormick]

Ivo writes:
> mplayer -ao pcm:file=output.wav -ss 3:00:00 -endpos 1:00:00 stream.dump

	That is exactly what I needed and it almost works but I
am doing something wrong because mplayer doesn't like the
-endpos directive.
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MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium III Katmai/Pentium III Xeon Tanner (Family: 6, Model: 7, Stepping: 3)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Unknown option on the command line: -endpos
Error parsing option on the command line: -endpos
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	The man page for mplayer does show the -endpos directive
so I am not sure what is wrong.  The -ss flag does appear to
work as expected and the .wav file extraction starts at that
point.



	Also, thanks to Alexander Roalter for his description of
how to edit .wav files. I will certainly save that message.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group