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

[Roberto Togni]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:26:11 +0000 (UTC)
Michael Lapsley <spamtrap at lapsley.ukshells.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.

It's a known problem, there is no working eof detection for pnm streams,
and no known way to detect eof (see also bug #209 in our bugzilla)

Ciao,
 Roberto