Dump does work! -was: Problem playing mms stream using mplayer or other players

On Nov 15, 5:55 pm, Mark S Bilk <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 15, 8:37 am, kiwanuka <robert.kiwan...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 14, 11:52 am, Mark S Bilk <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
mplayerhttp://mediasrv-the.musicradio.com/ClassicFM
mplayer mms://streammitre.uigc.net/mitrevivo
The first method is the "dump" facility. Search for "dumpaudio"
in the man page. This method doesn't work with either of the
two streams above, apparently because they use some kind of
Microsoft "asf" format. (Microsoft must die!)

The audio file was written in each case, but mplayer would not
play it.

But dump _can_ be made to work on these two streams! When
mplayer plays them it says:

ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 2
....
Video: no video

So asf is a _video_ format, but these two streams are sending
only the audio part. (Maybe the two audio streams are left and
right channel.) Therefore we need to dump the entire stream
to the file, not just the audio, in order to include the envelope
(carrier) format that surrounds the audio.

This works (but this server always takes about 30 seconds to
connect):

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile foo.asf mms://streammitre.uigc.net/mitrevivo

This works too (this server responds quickly):

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile goo.asf http://mediasrv-the.musicradio.com/ClassicFM

The growing files can be played by mplayer (but not xmms)
in another window, as before.

.

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