[MPlayer-users] mplayerplug-in and real video

[Kevin DeKorte]

On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:15 pm, ivanova wrote:
> Just a quick question - I was watching a real video and though it would be
> saved to disk, but it wasn't. The playlist file was saved though. I also
> noticed that when right clicking on the video, the save to option was
> disabled.
>
> Does the plugin support saving of real media? Where, if at all, is the
> temporary files saved?
>
> I am using the latest versions of mplayer/plugin.
>

For streaming media only the url is saved to the playlist file. Also for 
streaming media there is no temp file as the url is handed off to mplayer for 
processing. Streaming media types are: mms:// rtsp:// and http:// files that 
reference themselves. 

For non-streaming media the temp files are saved by default in /tmp or in a 
location specified by the TMPDIR environment variable. And are saveable via 
the menu.

To save a stream do something like this

mencoder "mms url" -o filename

I have a script the converts and mms stream to an mp3 

#mms2mp3
mplayer -ao pcm -aofile $2.pcm -vo null -cache 2048 "$1"
lame $2.pcm $2.mp3
rm $2.pcm

and it works like this

./mms2mp3 "mms url" "Local Name"

Kevin