[MPlayer-users] playing saved FLV stream

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Tue, 2008-07-29 13:10:14 -0700, Reza Roboubi <reza at parvan.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I used the Wireshark "follow TCP stream" feature, and saved the raw 
> stream on disk.  Is there a way to play this with mplayer?
> 
> The file starts like this:
> ------------------------------------------------
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Expires: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:34:42 GMT
> Cache-Control: max-age=3600
> Content-Type: video/flv
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> ETag: "-1449429187"
> Content-Length: 3275870
> Server: lighttpd/1.4.18
> Last-Modified: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:37:54 GMT
> Connection: close
> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:26:43 GMT
> 
> FLV[........]
> ----------------------------------------------------

Quite simple. Use your favourite hex editor (or calculate the exact
offset) and remove the leaing portion of the file, up to (but not
including) the "FLV...." stuff. That's the actual Flash Video file
that can be played.

MfG, JBG

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