[MPlayer-users] Re: End of stream detection ? broken?

[Michael Lapsley]

Hello All,


In article <slrnd0ut26.vju.spamtrap at rift.ukshells.co.uk>, Michael Lapsley wrote:
> I'm having a trouble with this:
> 
> mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile _40386563_mol.rm \\
>     pnm://rm.bbc.net.uk/news/media/audio/40386000/rm/_40386563_mol.rm
> 
> (version 1.0pre6) both linux and win32
> 
> What happens is that the stream downloads until the very end, when it hangs for
> a minute or two, then
> 
> ....
> input_pnm: read error
> ....
> 
> scrolls past, occasionally with a percentage.
> 
> The save file then grows rapidly without limit until the file system is full.
> 
> Using mplayer -ao pcm -aofile .... etc shows exactly the same behaviour.
> 
> Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
> 

Sorry to reply to my own thread, but no one seems to have picked up
on this: has nobody else seen this before?

I hope I have provided enough info:  I can do more digging if not,
but I need to be pointed in the right direction.

Thanks,

Michael