[MPlayer-users] dumpstream question

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Sapan Ganguly <sapan.ganguly <at> gmail.com> writes:

> mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile funny.wmv mms://
> www.funnystuff.com/funny.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf
> 
> If the stream isn't found at that URL I want it to just fail and stop but is
> seems to just keep retrying, what is the option to make it try once and then
> just fail?

That's what MPlayer does for me:

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile funny.wmv
mms://www.funnystuff.com/funny.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf
MPlayer SVN-r29170-4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing mms://www.funnystuff.com/funny.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf.
STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://www.funnystuff.com/funny.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf
Resolving www.funnystuff.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.funnystuff.com
Resolving www.funnystuff.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.funnystuff.com[64.38.29.126]: 1755...
connect error: Connection refused
Resolving www.funnystuff.com for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.funnystuff.com
Resolving www.funnystuff.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.funnystuff.com[64.38.29.126]: 80...


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Carl Eugen Hoyos