[MPlayer-users] How to play old Real stream

[Mario Valle]

Thanks Giacomo!
Nice numbering scheme to have RV10 older than RV9 ...
But anyway, What I'm trying to do is to dump locally the stream to use
it in a university lecture.
Do you know any other way to grab the stream?
Thanks!
			mario


Giacomo Comes wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:38:15AM +0100, Mario Valle wrote:
> 
>>Dear all,
>>I tried to play this Real stream: 
>><pnm://zuul.ncsa.uiuc.edu/arrott2/media/sevrstorm.rmd>
>>It plays correctly in the standard RealPlayer on Windows, but mplayer 
>>refuses to show anything in the window (see below the log). This seems due 
>>to the fact that I have installed the RV9 codecs from the mplayer web page 
>>but no RV10 codec. Then I tried to find a RV10 codec on the Real website, 
>>but it is a maze that never point you to a codec package...
>>Do you have any idea about what can I do?
>>Thanks!
>>			mario
> 
> 
> The codec RV10 is not the latest but the oldest (read it as 1.0)
> So it is supported very well by realplayer libs and ffmpeg.
> 
> The problem probably is related to the pnm protocol that mplayer
> doesn't support very well, but I could be wrong.
> 
> More expert people on the list can help you with your problem.
> 
> In the mean time you can watch the video with realplayer for linux too.
> 
> Giacomo
> 

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