[dundee] vsound?

[Dan Bolser]

2008/10/18 Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com>:
>>
>> For some reason, I took the assumption that HTTP authentication was
>> being used. It looks like cookies are being used instead. In that case,
>> login with Firefox/Mozilla and then run mplayer with the -cookies
>> option. You might also need the -cookies-file option and give the
>> location of your cookies.txt file.
>
> OK, now I am back home I discovered I can play / cap
>
> http://leadingstrand.cshl.edu/FAM/indexram/AtlasBioterrorism.ram
>
> by first downloading the ram, extracting the link to the .smi, and calling
>
> mplayer -playlist
> rtsp://meetstream.cshl.org:554/AtlasKeynoteGenome01/k/atlas.smi
> -dumpstream ...
>
> (thanks for that).
>
>
> Now I come to try and grab the 'restricted access' content
>
> I found that the -user and -passwd options failed. Also I had trouble
> getting the FF3 cookie file into 'netscape format' (apparently
> required by mplayer). Funnily enough, all I needed to do was
> constructct the URL with the
>
> rtsp://user:passwd@rest.of.url...
>
>
> format, and everything worked fine. I guess this format gives the
> details directly to the server instead of asking mplayer to do it
> indirectly via the command line options. Now everything is working
> fine... almost.
>
> I seem to have run up against an mplayer bug... I 'logged' it here:
>
> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2008-October/074835.html
>
>
> But I don't know if that is the correct place.
>
> Hrm... seems to be working at home! (Didn't work at work).

Now its failing as before (I spoke too soon).

I get the following error (as reported previously)...

realrtsp: rdt chunk not recognized: got 0x4f
realrtsp: rdt chunk not recognized: got 0x2a

It seems as though this was fixed,

http://www.itdp.de/mplayer-users/2005-11/msg00413.html


But the fix didn't catch all cases... Any programmers care to suggest
a work around? (Its totally beyond my skills!)

I am thinking that I'll just cap 60 second pieces of each lecture and
stitch them together afterwards... seems messy but it should work.

Dan.

> Thanks very much for talking me through this.
>
> Dan.
>



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