[MPlayer-users] Option -endpos fails with stream sources

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 05:18:28PM +0100, Maik Musall wrote:
> A:85962.7 (23:52:42.7) of -0.3 (unknown) ??,?% 0%
> 
> Exiting... (End of file)
> radio at einstein ~ $ ls -l file.wav
> -rw-r--r-- 1 radio audio  65580 2007-12-13 17:01 file.wav
> ************ snap
> 
> It doesn't matter if you specify 10 seconds or an hour (01:00:00) with
> -endpos, same result each time.

Since nobody had a reply: note that -endpos is in stream timestamps (the
thing displayed after A:), not playing time, so for this case -endpos 85972
would have captured 10 seconds.
The best solution currently is to kill MPlayer after the desired capture
time.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger