[MPlayer-users] novideo command line option? Capturing audio stream?

[Atwood, Robert C]

Funny,  man mplayer does not describe this command line option -novideo

The man page is dated 2003/01/11 

Should this be used if using 

mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile -- '<streaming-mp3-url>' 

as in Dean Gaudet's streamrip.pl script? 

http://www.arctic.org/~dean/scripts/streamrip

I have some skipping in the captured stream, I was assuming that this
was due to slow network connection problems. Would increasing the cache
help with this? 

Also, -dumpstream seems to be necessary to capture OGG vorbis streams,
whereas this option seems to mangle mp3 streams. Is this a bug? Or just
that I don't really understand what -dumpaudio is supposed to do if
there is no video to start with?

Or is there an even better utility to do this ..  (capture an internet
radio segment so I can listen to it later, in a cron job so I can get it
each week!)


Lame or MPG123 crashes when trying to process the resulting (mp3) output
files.  The file utility identifies them as a variety of different
formats! (mp2-48000 for example) 







-----Original Message-----
From: mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu
[mailto:mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Adam Rice
Sent: 05 March 2004 02:38
To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Video stream mandatory while converting .rm
to.mp3. Bug?


Quoting Abraham S. Lin (mplayer-users at vmstat.org):
> Tried a lot of stuff to convert .rm to .mp3 and finally trying the 
> most
> promising
> mplayer to no avail. Give me a hand?

That may be the best bug report I've ever seen. But you seem to have
ommitted one crucial piece of information: the command-line you were
using. I'm guessing that the -novideo commandline option might help you,
but I can't guarantee it.

Adam

-- 
Adam Rice -- adamrice at ntlworld.com -- Blackburn, Lancashire, England

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