On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 04:20:32PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > Stefan John Sullivan <stefan.sullivan <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > ~$ mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile "rep/week9/track2-dump.mp3" > > -noconsolecontrols "rtsp://128.2.23.13:554/johnston s07/rep and > > listening week 10 s07/02 Symphony No. 4 in G - ii. In gem?chlicher > > Bewegnung. Ohn.mp3" > > I do not observe a crash, but the stream does not work. > Maybe stream/librtsp or stream/realrtsp do not support special characters? They don't it seems, and the crash happens when the remote server closes the connection (probably because we sent it invalid data) and then MPlayer tries to use it (for read or write).