[MPlayer-users] MPlayer errors decoding captured streams

[Rodrigo Campos]

On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 08:24:50PM -0700, JW wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently using "MPlayer sherpya-r36349+gb24f15c-4.6 (C)
> 2000-2013 MPlayer Team" under Win7 Pro x64.
> 
> For at least the last year I've been saving streamed audio using
> mplayer, via
>     mplayer -playlist
> "http://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/pls/CBC_R1_VCR_H.pls"
> -cache 512 -dumpstream -dumpfile STREAMFILE.acc
> (Which I force to exit after a fixed period via TaskKill. Is there
> some other way to tell mplayer to stop saving after a fixed time?)

I don't know TaskKill, I use the timeout coreutils command. But it seems like
something similar, at least by the name :)

> Again, the same file that MPlayer reports these errors for causes no
> problem for VLC.

I don't really know. If I were you, I would try with different versions of
mplayer. Or you can wait till someone else answers something more useful :)




Thanks,
Rodrigo