[MPlayer-users] Startpos in a dumpstream

[The Wanderer]

Stefan Sassenberg wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying mplayer's dumpstream feature, my command line is
> mplayer -dumpstream 
> mms://stream.nettet.dk/hestenet/event2005/hor2005_loerdag-galla.wmv
> 
> but I don't want to dump all of it but only 11:21 minutes starting at
>  02:13:37. It must be technically possible because the link that lead
> me to the video is (the interesting part)
> 
> ------------8<--------------
> <ENTRY><TITLE>De Utroligste</TITLE><ABSTRACT>Frihedsdressur fra jord og 
> til hest med Honza Blaha</ABSTRACT><AUTHOR>Jan 
> Rasmussen</AUTHOR><COPYRIGHT>2005 Heste-Nettet</COPYRIGHT><REF 
> HREF="mms://stream.nettet.dk/hestenet/event2005/hor2005_loerdag-galla.wmv" 
> /><MOREINFO HREF="http://heste-nettet.dk/kaaring2005/" /><STARTTIME 
> VALUE="02:13:37" /><DURATION VALUE="00:11:21" /></ENTRY>
> ------------8<--------------
> 
> Is that possible with mplayer?

I don't think so, no - not unless you can convince the server to start
sending you the stream from that time offset, which I do not know
offhand of any way to do.

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