[MPlayer-users] How to extract a .WAV file from part of a very long dump file

[Ivo]

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 20:09, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Ivo writes:
> > mplayer -ao pcm:file=output.wav -ss 3:00:00 -endpos 1:00:00 stream.dump
>
> 	That is exactly what I needed and it almost works but I
> am doing something wrong because mplayer doesn't like the
> -endpos directive.
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> MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
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> 	The man page for mplayer does show the -endpos directive
> so I am not sure what is wrong.  The -ss flag does appear to
> work as expected and the .wav file extraction starts at that
> point.

Your MPlayer is too old. -endpos for MPlayer was added at September the 25th 
of 2006 (it existed before for MEncoder, that's why it is in your manual 
page), so you have to upgrade, preferably to the latest SVN version.

--Ivo