[MPlayer-users] How to extract a .WAV file from part of a dumpfile, partly Solved.

[Martin McCormick]

"John Brown" writes:
> Suppose you don't try to dump the 3-minute section and instead just play 
> it.
> Does that work? If it does, you can try MEncoder instead of MPlayer.  I 
> have
> never tried it myself, but the "aconvert" script in the TOOLS directory
> allows you to encode from an audio-only file.

	Excellent suggestion which I will try. I did figure out
that it has something to do with the stream itself. I tried the
following command on a mp3 dump stream

mplayer -ss 5:00 -endpos 15 stream.dump

This should just play 15 seconds of sound starting 5 minutes in
and it did exactly that.

The same script abends immediately when using the Windows media
stream I was working on all this time. I
even made a short additional stream.dump file from the same
source I was trying to dump from before and the -endpos flag
still killed the playback. Basically, all this means that the
actual decoding of the stream is being clobbered.

	One final question:

	If one downloads the latest codecs, is it necessary to
redo the ./configure and then make cycle on the mplayer source?

	My thanks to all on this list who have been so helpful.

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