calvin chan <c_calvin2000 <at> yahoo.co.uk> writes: > mplayer -dumpstream rtsp://192.168.2.6/play1.sdp -dumpfile /home/test.avi dumpstream does not work with rtsp, in the past people were told to use mencoder, nowadays I would suggest ffmpeg -i rtsp://192.168.2.6/play1.sdp -vcodec copy -acodec copy /home/test.avi Carl Eugen