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

[Stroller]

On 31 Jan 2010, at 13:31, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> 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


That's great, thanks!

It required here the addition of the -rtsp-stream-over-tcp flag, as  
suggested by Carl, but I guess it was the use of `mencoder -oac copy - 
ovc copy` that I was floundering for.

Stroller.