[MPlayer-users] -user-agent being ignored? (Apple keynote)

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:52:50PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Stroller <stroller <at> stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > > Please note that it is not possible to "download" rtsp streams, you  
> > > have to
> > > remux them (which may or may not work with mencoder or ffmpeg)
>                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > May thanks for your reply, Carl. Is there any chance I  could trouble  
> > you for some further hints, please?
> > 
> > When I google "remux rtsp mplayer" this page
>                             ^^^^^^^
> > <http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-quicktime-7.html 
> >  > is a top hit, with the illustrative commands:
> > 
> > mplayer narnia.avi -dumpaudio -dumpfile narnia.aac
> > mplayer narnia.avi -dumpvideo -dumpfile narnia.h264
>   ^^^^^^^
> 
> To repeat myself: You can only use mplayer to "play" rtsp streams, downloading
> and remuxing will not work. (Allow me to add that the result of the remux might
> not make you happy: Both mencoder and ffmpeg will probably loose packets and
> some frames will be damaged.)

While it doesn't create a strictly correct file, downloading works with e.g.
mencoder rtsp://a2047.v1411b.c1411.g.vq.akamaistream.net/5/2047/1411/2_h264_650/1a1a1ae454c430950065de4cbb2f94c226950c7ae655b61a48a91475e243acda3dac194879adde0f/1001908r5ft6dswz_1_650.mov -noskip -mc 0 -oac copy -ovc copy -fafmttag 0xA106 -o test.avi