Andy wrote: > On 10/06/07, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Then you find the address of the actual feed and check it plays in mplayer >> If it does (it should do) then add -dumpstream on the command line. > > Forgot to mention: > There is an "open in standalone player" link. > Right click that and chose "copy link location" > Then add the flag -playlist to the mplayer command line (the link is > to a .ram, and this is a list of .rm files to play). > > So it would be something like: > mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile click.rm -playlist 'URL' > > (obviously replace URL with an actual URL. > Sit back and wait.
Thanks. I have installed mplayer, and trying to begin most simply, used cl: mplayer http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/world/video/98000/bb/98711_16x9_bb.ram the result was: ============================== MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory Can't init input joystick 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 http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/world/video/98000/bb/98711_16x9_bb.ram. Resolving news.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: news.bbc.co.uk Resolving news.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET... Connecting to server news.bbc.co.uk[212.58.226.33]: 80... Cache size set to 320 KBytes Cache fill: 0.05% (163 bytes) Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll Exiting... (End of file) ============================== there seems to be a loadlibrary problem, at least. Any ideas please? -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/