Ripping-And-Pausing Streams?

[Jude DaShiell]

There's supposed to be a novideo parameter that can be used with mplayer 
that may help if you can figure out how to use it.  I tried earlier but 
had no luck yet.



On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Hart Larry wrote:

> Well, I wanted to rip a TV stream from ABC-News.  So when I rip with mplayer 
> -dumpstream or -dumpaudio, sometimes I use the -playlist option.  Anyway, I 
> guess in the ripping process, m player doesn't handle re-directs, because all 
> I get is some kind of .gif short file.  The stream plays fine live, but just 
> won't seem to rip.  Last year I tried ripping the Presidents State of the 
> Union address, but all I got from a particular site was a 30-second 
> advertisement. When playing that stream, it would switch to the feed.  Are 
> their switches in m player to make it handle broadcasts like these.  So right 
> now, I am trying arecord  but so far its not telling me where or what its 
> saving this .wav file under.
> And I don't think tr player will handle .asx files, otherwise I would have 
> used grabit for this
> Thanks in advance
> Hart
>
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