[MPlayer-users] Graceful failure when listening to a stream

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Walter Belhaven wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using mplayer, rather succesfully in most cases, to record streamed
> audio files, using the -ao pcm options.  But, unfortunately, mplayer is
> not failing "gracefully" when the audio stream is interrupted due to
> net congestion, server problems, or otherwise.  Ideally, if the stream
> is interrupted for some number of seconds, I'd like mplayer to just
> give up, close the PCM (.wav) file, and exit.  
>   
normally I use -dumpstream option and after I run a second instance of 
Mplayer to listen _*or *_convert. The time between my first and second 
command line act as a cache. You can write a simple two line script for 
that.
It never fails.
Otherwise you can use the -cache otpion like "-cache 8192".
daniele