Mplayer / Mencoder Stream capture

[Ghim]

For a research purpose, I need to record streaming video (using RTSP/RTP over UDP protocol).

After many tests, mplayer seems the best solution.

I'm currently using "-vo png" option to output png files but the problem is that it only outputs 1 PNG file if there's a frame freeze, but I need to reproduce exactly these freezes before converting the PNG sequence to AVI with Virtualdub.

I managed to make mplayer output a log file and I created a little piece of software to reproduce theses freezes but I can't automate it and the result isn't very accurate.

Is there a way to make mplayer tell when frames are skipped or any other solution that could work for me ??

Thanks.

[bugmenotwillyou]

hey,

why not use the -dumpstream option?

e.g. mplayer -dumpstream mms://some.site.com/stupid/proprietary/file/format.asf

enjoy, a bugmenot user

p.s. reply seems to be a bit late but then ... this thread came up pretty quick in a google search (place 3 on the quest for mplayer capture stream)