[MPlayer-users] Trouble with RTSP stream; works with Quicktime and VLC

[The Wanderer]

Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:

> Hi Aaron!
> 
> Aaron Greenhouse <aarong <at> cs.cmu.edu> writes:

>> (My interest in this is that I want to be able to archive the audio
>>  and video stream sent by the camera.  I have been using EvoCam to
>>  control 2 of these cameras, and I can save a nice time-lapse
>> movie, or archive the video stream, but it is a QuickTime-based
>> product and QuickTime won't let me save the audio stream.  VLC is
>> supposed to allow me to save it, but while it views the stream
>> correctly, the stream it saves craps out after 1 second.  I was
>> hoping mplayer would do better.)
> 
> You will be able to either -dumpaudio or -dumpvideo (unfortunately
> not both at the same time),

I would think that '-dumpstream' would work just fine for that purpose,
and then you could separate out the streams later if necessary. Have I
missed something which would indicate that this would not work?

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