[MPlayer-users] Recording multistream ASF streams

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:12:57PM -0500, Aleksey Sudakov wrote:
> > the dumped stream can be played with mplayer, but you could
> > try the combination -dumpvideo -dumpaudio -dumpfile whatever.asf.

Pure nonsense. You can't combine these. Also the output they create is
only for debugging or people who really know about these things.

> > this could get rid of the unwanted extra information because
> > you tell mplayer explicitly to dump just the audio and the video.
> 
> Sometimes even mplayer cannot play dumped stream without specifying the
> substream with -vid. It does work for http://vipmms.itele.fr/cpi_itele,
> but doesn't work for http://video.corbina.tv/tv2 and couple others.
[...]
> 
> P.S. I have mplayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5 that is just 2 weeks old

As I said now at least four times in various threads, this is too old!
There is a reason why we always suggest to use CVS unless you have
problems with it...

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger