I am using Mplayer to record streams from an "mms" url.
I wish to save the video in a partition Work: How?
In the preferences to Mplayer a fill in box (what's the right term?) requests the path to "Dump Stream" I wish the mms url address to identitify the file in Work: This in aGUI.

If not what would be the command line syntax?
- Playing a stream:
mplayer <stream url> -cachenetwork -cache 2048 -quiet -vo cgx_overlay::PLANAR -autosync 30
Recording a stream and saving it as the <stream url>?

[ Edited by osco on 2010/1/14 12:25 ]

[ Edited by osco on 2010/1/14 16:27 ]

If you want to use the GUI to record, just select the fullpath you want to record to in that "dump stream" string. Then, in pulldown menu->control, check "Record Stream", and then play your stream normally. You can even enable/disable record at runtime to skip unwanted parts, as long as you started recording before playing the stream.

From command line, you could do it too (with dumpstream & co), but you couldn't watch it at the same time.


[ Edited by Fab on 2010/1/14 18:57 ]

Looking for the correct syntax.3.4.1.?Saving streamed content:::::

Once you succeed in making MPlayer play your favorite internet stream, you can use the option -dumpstream to save the stream into a file. For example:

mplayer http://217.71.208.37:8006 -dumpstream -dumpfile stream.asf
will save the content streamed from http://217.71.208.37:8006 into stream.asf. This works with all protocols supported by MPlayer, like MMS, RTSP, and so forth.

For example mplayer mms://66.209.93.118/Replays2010/201001141504TAM7.wmv?CUST=TampaBay&TICKET=09a51fa3be90b47dfbd79c0e4c303ff4%7C1263502002%7C300%7C%2A%7CTampaBay%7C1000%7C0%7C0 -dumpstream -dumpfile Work:mms//66.209.93.118/Replays2010/201001141504TAM7.wmv?CUST=TampaBay&TICKET=09a51fa3be90b47dfbd79c0e4c303ff4%7C1263502002%7C300%7C%2A%7CTampaBay%7C1000%7C0%7C0.asf

[ Edited by osco on 2010/1/14 15:43 ]

How do address mplayer in the shell? An example would be great?

I wish to issue a command from shell to MPLAYER? Below is the path to where MPlayer is loacated




Ram Disk:> mplayer
mplayer: Unknown command
Ram Disk:> system:
System:> applications
System:Applications> mplayer
mplayer: Unknown command
System:Applications> Mplayer-1.0
System:Applications/MPlayer-1.0> dir
MPlayer-1.0-svn-2009.08.30 (dir)
System:Applications/MPlayer-1.0> /Mplayer-1.0-svn-2009.08.30
/Mplayer-1.0-svn-2009.08.30: Unknown command
System:Applications/MPlayer-1.0> Mplayer-1.0-svn-2009.08.30
System:Applications/MPlayer-1.0/MPlayer-1.0-svn-2009.08.30> dir
conf (dir)
images (dir)
AUTHORS GMPlayer.info
LICENSE mencoder
MPlayer MPlayer.info
README readme.morphos
readme.morphos.info

Is this the command line needed?
System:Applications/MPlayer-1.0/MPlayer-1.0-svn-2009.08.30>MPlayer

System:Applications/MPlayer-1.0/MPlayer-1.0-svn-2009.08.30> MPlayer
Output below


MPlayer SVN-r29543-4.2.4 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
138 audio & 300 video codecs
Usage: mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename

Basic options: (complete list in the man page)
-vo <drv> select video output driver ('-vo help' for a list)
-ao <drv> select audio output driver ('-ao help' for a list)
dvd://<titleno> play DVD title from device instead of plain file
-alang/-slang select DVD audio/subtitle language (by 2-char country code)
-ss <position> seek to given (seconds or hh:mm:ss) position
-nosound do not play sound
-fs fullscreen playback (or -vm, -zoom, details in the man page)
-x <x> -y <y> set display resolution (for use with -vm or -zoom)
-sub <file> specify subtitle file to use (also see -subfps, -subdelay)
-playlist <file> specify playlist file
-vid x -aid y select video (x) and audio (y) stream to play
-fps x -srate y change video (x fps) and audio (y Hz) rate
-pp <quality> enable postprocessing filter (details in the man page)
-framedrop enable frame dropping (for slow machines)

Basic keys: (complete list in the man page, also check input.conf)
<- or -> seek backward/forward 10 seconds
down or up seek backward/forward 1 minute
pgdown or pgup seek backward/forward 10 minutes
< or > step backward/forward in playlist
p or SPACE pause movie (press any key to continue)
q or ESC stop playing and quit program
+ or - adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 second
o cycle OSD mode: none / seekbar / seekbar + timer
* or / increase or decrease PCM volume
x or z adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 second
r or t adjust subtitle position up/down, also see -vf expand

* * * SEE THE MAN PAGE FOR DETAILS, FURTHER (ADVANCED) OPTIONS AND KEYS * * *
Command Below

System:Applications/MPlayer-1.0/MPlayer-1.0-svn-2009.08.30> MPlayer- mms://66.209.93.118/Replays2010/201001141504TAM7.wmv?CUST=TampaBay&TICKET=09a51fa3be90b47dfbd79c0e4c303ff4%7C1263502002%7C300%7C%2A%7CTampaBay%7C1000%7C0%7C0\
MPlayer-: Unknown command
System:Applications/MPlayer-1.0/MPlayer-1.0-svn-2009.08.30> MPlayer-mms://66.209.93.118/Replays2010/201001141504TAM7.wmv?CUST=TampaBay&TICKET=09a51fa3be90b47dfbd79c0e4c303ff4%7C1263502002%7C300%7C%2A%7CTampaBay%7C1000%7C0%7C0\
MPlayer-mms://66.209.93.118/Replays2010/201001141504TAM7.wmv?CUST: Unknown command
System:Applications/MPlayer-1.0/MPlayer-1.0-svn-2009.08.30>

A requester opened
"Shell Process"
Please insert volume
MPlayer-mms
in any drive

Retry Assign Mount Deny Cancel

Steep learning curve here?

Hello,

For ex.
This script is the channel BFMTV: an first play this

IF EXISTS env:VARmplayer
C:break $VARmplayer
C:delete >nil: env:VARmplayer
ENDIF

;--- Your mms channel ------------------------------

echo >env:VARmms mms://vipmms9.yacast.net/bfm_bfmtv

;--- Your Mplayer path Config ----------------------

Stack 1000000
RUN MPlayer:MPlayer -mc 0 >nil: $VARmms

;---------------------------------------------------------

C:status >env:VARmplayer command mplayer


An this script is the REC channel

IF NOT EXISTS env:VARmms
RequestChoice TITLE "ATTENTION" BODY "Vous devez choisir une chaine pour l'enregistrer" GADGETS "OK"
ELSE
IF not exists env:VARdest
Requestfile >ENV:VARdest DRAWERSONLY="ram:" TITLE="Choisir un chemin de destination."
ELSE
Requestfile >ENV:VARdest DRAWERSONLY="$VARdest" TITLE="Choisir un chemin de destination."
ENDIF

$VARdest
;--- Your Mplayer and mms channel path Config ------------------------------

Stack 1000000
RUN MPlayer:MPlayer -dumpstream -mc 0 >nil: $VARmms

;----------------------------------------------------

C:status >env:VARrec command mplayer

@+
Patbest

Command below

System:Applications/MPlayer-1.0/MPlayer-1.0-svn-2009.08.30> mplayer <mms://66.209.93.118/Replays2010/201001141504TAM7.wmv?CUST=TampaBay&TICKET=09a51fa3be90b47dfbd79c0e4c303ff4%7C1263502002%7C300%7C%2A%7CTampaBay%7C1000%7C0%7C0\> -cachenetwork -cache 2048 -quiet -vo cgx_overlay::PLANAR -autosync 30

Output

mplayer: unable to open redirection file

@Fab,

Thank-you for your reply. The eventual goal (hopefully) is to batch download many video files (not porn: too many children already) using arexx..the mms list of files can be parsed and passed to the command line..It was done before using Aweb and a large list of text files

Osco

@ Patbest
What part of Heaven or Hell are you located?

A votre sante!

[ Edited by osco on 2010/1/14 16:48 ]