[MPlayer-users] wireless cam stops after 17 hours with mplayer

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:08:32AM -0700, Charles Ross wrote:
>  Cam 2 (the 
> problem cam) uses mplayer in a script once a minute to grab images.  So I can still go to the linksys camera network page at 192.168.1.19 and see the settings but I cannot view video either on this page or via mplayer.  

Sounds like MPlayer makes the video part of the camera crash or something like that.

> Is there a wget command to grab just one image and save it as a jpeg?  I
>  know you can it can save a stream (.asf file) but I"m not sure about 
> just one image.  If so, please let me know how to do that and I'll 
> check.  

Seems wget can't, but something like curl -r 0-1048576 will download the
first 1 MB from which you should be able to extract one image with MPlayer.