Hello All, In article <slrnd0ut26.vju.spamtrap@rift.ukshells.co.uk>, Michael Lapsley wrote:

I'm having a trouble with this:

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile _40386563_mol.rm \\ pnm://rm.bbc.net.uk/news/media/audio/40386000/rm/_40386563_mol.rm

(version 1.0pre6) both linux and win32

What happens is that the stream downloads until the very end, when it hangs for a minute or two, then

.... input_pnm: read error ....

scrolls past, occasionally with a percentage.

The save file then grows rapidly without limit until the file system is full.

Using mplayer -ao pcm -aofile .... etc shows exactly the same behaviour.

Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Sorry to reply to my own thread, but no one seems to have picked up on this: has nobody else seen this before? I hope I have provided enough info: I can do more digging if not, but I need to be pointed in the right direction. Thanks, Michael