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Cannot capture MMS streams

Postby cipix » 26 Apr 2009 11:42

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.

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Re: Cannot capture MMS streams

Postby whome » 26 Apr 2009 11:54

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

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Re: Cannot capture MMS streams

Postby cipix » 26 Apr 2009 12:05

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?

:(

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Re: Cannot capture MMS streams

Postby VLC_help » 26 Apr 2009 17:29

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


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