[MPlayer-users] Re: ID_LENGTH=0 with finite streaming media (no live)

[adland123]

> By the way, if somebody can tell me how to dump this stream, I get the 
> error message...
> 
> Here is the command line:
> mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile stream.mp4 <same-url>
> 
> And the error message:
> "Cannot dump this stream - no file descriptor available."
> 


no need to bother with streaming and -dumpstream just download the file directly
see archive.org main page at
http://www.archive.org/details/more_dangerous_then_dynamite

then 
wget http://www.archive.org/download/more_dangerous_then_dynamite/
more_dangerous_then_dynamite_64kb.mp4


wget http://www.archive.org/download/more_dangerous_then_dynamite/
more_dangerous_then_dynamite_64kb.mp4 -q -O -|mplayer -

(or 256K for better version)