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

[John Brown]

Martin McCormick wrote:
>
>"John Brown" writes:
> > Suppose you don't try to dump the 3-minute section and instead just play
> > it.
> > Does that work?
> >
>... 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.

Do you mean that if you omit -endpos, it will seek correctly into the
file, and keep playing until you quit?

>Basically, all this means that the
>actual decoding of the stream is being clobbered.
>

If that is the case, then MEncoder won't help.

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

I don't know. Maybe if the latest codecs include some that were not
working before, but otherwise, I doubt it.

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