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

[Joey Parrish]

On 4/17/07, Walter Belhaven <wbelhaven at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm using mplayer, rather succesfully in most cases, to record streamed
> audio files, using the -ao pcm options.  [snip]

> [snip] What it seems to be
> doing instead, at least when run with a "real" audio output device --
> i.e., when I omit the "-ao pcm" stuff and just listen to the stream
> live -- is continuously repeat (play) the last few (milli)seconds of
> audio...

This is due to the data in your sound card's buffer.  If MPlayer hangs
and does not change the data in the buffer, your sound card will just
loop through that buffer anyway.

Also, the advice given by daniele seems like a good solution to me.

--Joey