[MPlayer-users] why can I watch it with gnome-mplayer but not with mplayer?

[Mahdiyar Noorbala]

Yes I was going to mention that. I just noticed that the file is
growing in size after I submitted my last post. Thanks anyway for your
answer.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Oliver Seitz <info at vtnd.de> wrote:
>
>> But actually now I face a different problem: The -dumpstream option of
>> mplayer doesn't work. I get the following message
>>
> [...]
>>
>> and then it halts (doesn't even show the prompt).
>
> Have you checked the dump file from a second console? MPlayer does not
> output anything while dumping a stream. To dump an hour-long stream, it will
> usually take one hour, without any display output.
>
> Greets,
> Kiste
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