Gavin Ford wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:27:41PM +0000, alan c wrote: >> > The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it, try >> > it in >> > single quotes like this: >> > >> > mplayer >> > 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title="BBC"&author="BBC"©right="(C)British >> > Broadcasting Corporation"' >> >> Thanks, however that does not seem to work. >> Also a similar thing happens even when the title part is omitted entirely. > > Weird, it's working fine for me here with the same setup. Looks like an > article > about the XO machine. > > Make sure you're entering it all on one line, leave out the -playlist option > and > any line wrapping symbols your mail client may be inserting. > > Easiest way to do it I find it to enter the: > > mplayer ' > > then copy/paste the URL and enter the final: > > ' > > If it's not that, I'm not sure what's up with it. > > -Gav
Thanks Gav it has started working and I am delighted! I am not sure what the difference was. I omitted the -playlist option as you suggested, that certainly helped, and kept trying a few things, but - now it works, including with the -dumpstream -dumpfile <filename> configuration too. :-) -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
