Sapan Ganguly <sapan.ganguly <at> gmail.com> writes: > mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile funny.wmv mms:// > www.funnystuff.com/funny.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf > > If the stream isn't found at that URL I want it to just fail and stop but is > seems to just keep retrying, what is the option to make it try once and then > just fail? That's what MPlayer does for me: mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile funny.wmv mms://www.funnystuff.com/funny.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf MPlayer SVN-r29170-4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing mms://www.funnystuff.com/funny.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf. STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://www.funnystuff.com/funny.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf Resolving www.funnystuff.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.funnystuff.com Resolving www.funnystuff.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server www.funnystuff.com[64.38.29.126]: 1755... connect error: Connection refused Resolving www.funnystuff.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.funnystuff.com Resolving www.funnystuff.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server www.funnystuff.com[64.38.29.126]: 80... Exiting... (End of file) Carl Eugen Hoyos _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
