[MPlayer-users] mplayer dumpstream ends prematurely

[augustin]

Hello, 

Is there a time limit to the duration of a stream, or does one get 
disconnected automatically after a certain amount of time?
If this limit is set by the stream server, how can I circumvent it?

Example:
I am listening live to the cspan coverage of the Democratic convention. 
http://cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx
The coverage lasts from 3pm to 9pm, i.e. 6 hours, but I get cut after 2 or 3 
hours:

When listening to the live coverage, I do simply:
mplayer 
rtsp://rx-wes-sea47.rbn.com/farm/pull/tx-rbn-sea001:2459/farm/cspan/g2cspan/live/cspan1-g2.rm 
but I have to abort and restart at least once during the coverage (which is 
not too bad). 

My real problem is trying to save the stream after the fact. If you look at 
the cspan link above, you'll notice that they offer streams of all past 
events.
However, I cannot download the whole stream for the coverage of the whole day.

I do:

 mplayer -bandwidth 100000000 -dumpfile c08_082608_dnc1.rm -dumpstream  
rtsp://video1.c-span.org/archive/c08/c08_082608_dnc1.rm   

but I get only the first 2h53m of the day (Tuesday. Monday I get 2h54m), i.e. 
the least interesting part.

The output:
==============
Playing rtsp://video1.c-span.org/archive/c08/c08_082608_dnc1.rm.
Resolving video1.c-span.org for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: video1.c-span.org
Resolving video1.c-span.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server video1.c-span.org[38.105.88.134]: 554...
librtsp: server responds: '$'
Cache size set to 640 KBytes
realrtsp: Stream EOF detected
Core dumped ;)

Exiting... (End of file)
==============


Thanks,

Augustin.

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