[MPlayer-users] why can I watch it with gnome-mplayer but not with mplayer?

[Oliver Seitz]

> But actually now I face a different problem: The -dumpstream option of
> mplayer doesn't work. I get the following message
>
[...]
>
> and then it halts (doesn't even show the prompt).

Have you checked the dump file from a second console? MPlayer does not 
output anything while dumping a stream. To dump an hour-long stream, it 
will usually take one hour, without any display output.

Greets,
Kiste