mplayer dumpstream sometimes fails

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I'm trying to rip the video at http://videolectures.net/ecml07_getoor_isr/, so I can play it at a faster speed. I paste http://193.2.4.216/2007/pascal/ecml07_warsaw/getoor_lise/ecml07_getoor_isr_01.wmv into a firefox browser in Windows and MediaPlayer plays the thing. However if I try mplayer -dumpstream, it gets stuck into an infinite loop trying to play the file.

If I use wget to download the link, I get a small text file which basically points to the same URL. How can I get mplayer to download this stream?

User1

Posted 2009-11-10T15:47:09.160

Reputation: 7 653

I checked and the stream doesn't exist anymore (using normal windows media player) Has it moved to a different location I can test ? – ohadsc – 2010-04-16T16:46:43.450

Have you tried adding a Referer: header to wget? – Teddy – 2009-11-10T16:17:43.110

Tried that..nope. – User1 – 2009-11-12T04:32:08.400

Answers

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I don't know how to make the mplayer plugin capture a stream, but mplayer itself can capture streams fairly well. Try running from the command line. Either:

wget < your url > -O - | mplayer -cache 8192 -

or

mplayer < your url > -dumpstream -dumpfile < out file >

DaveParillo

Posted 2009-11-10T15:47:09.160

Reputation: 13 402

mplayer puts these in an infinite loop. – User1 – 2009-11-12T04:33:56.010

I think the wget approach may work. I seem to be missing an avisynth.dll for windows I would need to actually play the lecture at your URl, however, the wget works & mplayer starts. Calling mplayer directly does cause it to get stuck in a loop. I'm 99% sure it's because when mplayer makes it's request, the response has ?MSWMExt=.asf. tacked on the end. That is going to cause mplayer alot of grief, but I don't know how to prevent it. – DaveParillo – 2009-11-12T05:10:22.050

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