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Cannot capture MMS streams
Posted: 26 Apr 2009 11:42
by cipix
Hello
I have this
mms://194.116.83.15/New
Vlc only plays it for 10 seconds than it stops.
WMP plays it all the way, infinitely.
How can I get vlc to play it all the way so I can capture the stream?
I am using windows XP with wmp11 and IE 8
Thank you.
Re: Cannot capture MMS streams
Posted: 26 Apr 2009 11:54
by whome
I tested this with my VLC and MEncoder scripts. both save only ~10 seconds. Using WMP standalone player clearly shows how it switches to a new stream after a 10sec introduction video. Must be how MS Media Encoder, mms:// and WMP player does the co-op magic.
This scripts shows you a debug information where you can see how connection is end after an introduction playback.
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set source="mms://194.116.83.15/New"
set VLC=C:\apps\vlc-1.0.0-git\vlc.exe
"%VLC%" -vvv -I dummy %source% :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=1024,acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst="output.mpeg"}}
pause
Re: Cannot capture MMS streams
Posted: 26 Apr 2009 12:05
by cipix
thanks for the answer...
so how do I figure out the next stream in line ?
The stream info in IE playing this shows the same "mms://194.116.83.15/New" even while playing the actual video, but the protocol is rtsp (http)
the actual page is
www.rocktelevision.com
can I somehow figure it out there?
Re: Cannot capture MMS streams
Posted: 26 Apr 2009 17:29
by VLC_help
You can also open rtsp://194.116.83.15/New with VLC. But that one also stops. So there is some way of telling the new URL of the stream that VLC doesn't support and that is why you can't play it with VLC. But there should be rtsp names for streams so you should be able to open directly the stream you want by using URL like rtsp://194.116.83.15/something