[MPlayer-users] playing a rtsp stream succeeds, -dumpstream results in an empty file

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:58:13PM +0200, Ilja Sekler wrote:
> ends instantly with a zero bytes file "ueberschallflieger.mp4". Is
> -dumpstream supposed to not work with LIVE555?

No, -dumpstream can not work with rtsp since it is a protocol that
does not have a single stream but completely separate audio and video
streams that are never mixed together. Thus you can only capture it
by muxing them together with e.g. mencoder.