Downloading Rtsp Audio Stream

[Hajj Amir]

Salam. I want to download the audio from the following website (for example).

rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm

I've tried FlashGet and SUPER which usually work for me. Any suggestions on how I can download the stream for free?

Thanks in advance

HA

[m0]

Salam. I want to download the audio from the following website (for example).

rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm

I've tried FlashGet and SUPER which usually work for me. Any suggestions on how I can download the stream for free?

Thanks in advance

HA

You could use mplayer.exe to do it, (use their codecs). But what I do usually, is use VLC player, where I just

1. FILE > Open Network Stream
   
2. Select the correct Network Protocol ( RTSP ) in this case...
   
3. Check the "Save" button and select the proper Encoding Techniques such as MPEG-1 ( mp3 ) at 192kbps with 2 Channel Pass (which is good enough)
   
4. Then play the stream (listen to it, and it will record the file)
   

I couldn't read that stream ... dunno... Wont play with me. Try the above (you should be an intermediate Computer User...

But I like using this Application (Streambox)

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio_so...reambox_vcr.cfm

Take a look at that.... You can download basically any Streaming Content.

And AfterDawn Forums is a pretty good place for Ripping Music/ and other Media related issue.

[Ya Aba 3abdillah]

rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm

I've tried FlashGet and SUPER which usually work for me. Any suggestions on how I can download the stream for free?

wow, very nice link bro, thanks!!

Streambox seems to be getting obsolete, it was awesome in its heyday, found that it hasn't been coping with the new versions of various streams. SUPER's had some trouble too. HiDownload almost never failed me and am downloading the file now as we speak. http://www.download.com/HiDownload/3000-20...tml?tag=lst-0-1

Going to go download the other pt shows now ^_^

ws

[Hajj Amir]

Thanks for the replies. Does mplayer.exe mean Windows media player? I don't think it can save audio streams, can it? I haven't heard of VLC player either.

Streambox ripper won't work and HiDownload is only free for a trial period. Any ideas? I like to download things from time to time so I am looking for something more than a trial. What is a trial period for HiDownload anyway?

HA

[samy]

MPlayer is another media player that can playback almost every media file you can throw at it. you can get it here.

i only know how to stream rip off a console. i'm crippled when it comes to GUIs.

mplayer -dumpstream rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm -dumpfile stream.mp3

this will rip the raw stream to a file called stream.mp3

or, you can use mencoder (a movie encoder) which is part of the MPlayer package.

mencoder rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o stream.mp3

both can do the job.

Edited July 4, 2007 by samy

[Hajj Amir]

Thanks. Perhaps I sound too fusy, but MPlayer looks as if it is going to cause me a lot of hassle to figure all that out.

[m0]

Thanks. Perhaps I sound too fusy, but MPlayer looks as if it is going to cause me a lot of hassle to figure all that out.

That is why I said use VideoLAN (VLC) A gui built ontop of MPlayer and has MEncoder as well. IF you do what I said, they have a save stream checkbox which you just select...

But if you are more advanced user, and enjoy shell/console typing, then download mplayer/mencoder and do the commands as stated by samy, or use VLC (Open Source Player based on mplayer/mencoder)

[Hajj Amir]

VideoLAN (VLC) looks good. Tried playing around with it but it cannot play or save the RTSP stream I am interested in either. Tried another one on that website too. Shame. Thanks all the same.

I saved one show before by recording the noise coming out of my speakers i.e. with the Stereo Mix recording device (no, I didn't put a mic next to the speakers :-) )

Edited July 5, 2007 by Hajj Amir

[samy]

i was able to play/rip that stream with MPlayer/MEncoder

going console isn't as scary as it might seem. once installed, fire up your console, navigate to the install directory, then paste in one of two lines from above.

(if you do happen to give it a go, you might have to add .exe to mplayer and mencoder before pasting them in. i've pretty much given up on M$ so i wouldn't really know)

[Hajj Amir]

Sounds good, but I'm just not up to scratch. There would be too much new things for me too learn e.g. how to compile and about binary codeces etc. The learning curve put me off going LINUX. When my friend showed me how thick the guide book is that put me off.

Not having a GUI is OK. I am old enough to have used DOS. Its just that I can't afford to go to deep into it. If all else fails I may as well just record through the sound card and convert the WAV file.

HA

Edited July 6, 2007 by Hajj Amir

[Ya Aba 3abdillah]

^ just get HiDownload bro. Trust me on this one. After 6 months, the 3 week evaluation period still hasn't ended..lol.

[samy]

as you wish,

i'll throw this final post in the air for a non-gui, in steps that even the simplest of users can follow. it will probably help the passer-bys who happen to swing by here.

the current MPlayer package for windows is: MPlayer-mingw32-1.0rc1.zip

• to install - > just unzip the file to a directory of your choice. that's it!
  
• to keep things tidy, i'd unzip it, then rename it to just "mplayer", then move it to C:\Program Files
  
• to playback common media files and rtsp streams: binary codecs are not needed
  

and now, hitting the command prompt

• click start > run > cmd
  
• cd c:\Program Files\mplayer
  
• mplayer.exe -dumpstream rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm -dumpfile file.mp3
  

and that's it. when the entire stream has ended, there will be file called "file.mp3" in the C:\Program Files\mplayer directory.

Edited July 6, 2007 by samy

[m0]

Sounds good, but I'm just not up to scratch. There would be too much new things for me too learn e.g. how to compile and about binary codeces etc. The learning curve put me off going LINUX. When my friend showed me how thick the guide book is that put me off.

Not having a GUI is OK. I am old enough to have used DOS. Its just that I can't afford to go to deep into it. If all else fails I may as well just record through the sound card and convert the WAV file.

HA

Wait...

I forgot to see that Samy's URL stated rm to MP3 in one direct line. That is kinda wrong. mencoder dump feature will just DUMP all contents to some dump file. So if you are viewing .rm, it will dump it as .rm. So what you have to do is dump all the stream, and then convert or rip out the mp3 from that stream..

You could use VLC for that, but it will just save the DUMP of that stream, but you need to handle that stream, so you need to use some encoding techniques....

I will show you how to do it the right way, since I am a fan of shell based (console) encoding and decoding, you should have some knowledge of that as well. But it isn't that hard... But requires advance users..

We will be using MPLAYER's (Mplayer.exe) to download the stream as a single dump file Since your stream has video within it.

and will be using LAME (lame.exe) to encode that dump file to any format we wish (lke an encoder)

The SETUP

1. Download MPLAYER http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
   
2. Unzip to say c:\ (so then you will have c:\mplayer)
   
3. Download MPLAYER CODECS http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html
   
4. Unzip to say c:\mplayer\codecs
   
5. Download LAME http://lame.sourceforge.net/download.php
   
6. Unzip to say c:\mplayer
   
7. Now you will see 3 .exe's ( mencoder.exe , mplayer.exe, lame.exe )
   

Let's START

1. Goto command prompt ( START > RUN > CMD then type cd c:\mplayer )
   
2. Download the Stream as a RAW dumpfile, You will see a file called "stream.dump":
   mplayer -dumpstream URL
   
3. Convert to WAV file, You will see a file called "audiodump.wav":
   mplayer -ao pcm stream.dump
   (must convert to wav then to mp3)
   
4. Convert the WAV to MP3 through LAME:
   lame -preset-standard audiodump.wav finally_my_audio.mp3
   

That is it ... I wrote the above, as doing it on my pc...

Notice that downloading the stream is relative to the length of the LIVE RTSP broadcast, we are just dumping what we are listening to some file and then stripping out the audio then listening to it.

The reason why it works for Samy, is because he is using Linux, Linux doesn't have filenames, it figures out what the METADATA of that file is and uses that codec. So if you use mplayer to play that stream dump, which many Linux users use as a video player, it looks at the headers of that dump and plays it with that codec automatically. But if he wishes to copy that stream.mp3 to his MP3PLAYER, he can't play it. He needs to encode it.

Hope that helped.. Good Luck playing with codecs

wassalam

[Hajj Amir]

Thanks for ur help. the step-by-step is very good.

I downloaded MPlayer 1.0rc1 Windows from:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Then I downloaded the codecs from the same site (the link given by m0 did not work).

So I unzipped windows-essential-20061022.zip and MPlayer-mingw32-1.0rc1.zip to:

"c:\program files\mplayer" and "c:\program files\mplayer\codecs", respectively

I inserted the line suggested at the command prompt, and this is what I got:

C:\Program Files\mplayer>mplayer.exe -dumpstream rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm

MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.4.2 © 2000-2006 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 1)

CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0

Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring

.

Cannot load bitmap font: c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf

Playing rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm.

Resolving vodreal.stanford.edu for AF_INET...

Connecting to server vodreal.stanford.edu[171.64.17.69]: 554...

Cache size set to 640 KBytes

rdt chunk not recognized: got 0x4f

rdt chunk not recognized: got 0x2a

Core dumped ;)

Exiting... (End of file)

...yes I can find stream.dump, but it is only 18KB! Once when I typed the following line I got as far as 2.5% complete

mplayer.exe -dumpstream rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm -dumpfile file.mp3

BTW, just to confirm, I am using Windows XP. Help would be appreciated,

Hajj Amir

[Hajj Amir]

BTW, it just seems to be strems from the Philosophy Talk website that I have probs with. I have never had a problem with other streams. Using Flashget is so easy. I have downloaded loads of audio streams from e.g. the BBC. Hee's an example:

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/religion/beyond_belief/beyond_20070618.rm

but I can't do rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm

??

Hajj Amir

[m0]

BTW, it just seems to be strems from the Philosophy Talk website that I have probs with. I have never had a problem with other streams. Using Flashget is so easy. I have downloaded loads of audio streams from e.g. the BBC. Hee's an example:

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/religion/beyond_belief/beyond_20070618.rm

but I can't do rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm

??

Hajj Amir

Something is wrong with their server ... look http://vodreal.stanford.edu/

[Ya Aba 3abdillah]

Something is wrong with their server ... look http://vodreal.stanford.edu/

No there isn't. It's just the way they encoded it (double threaded). I have the audio downloaded to my computer (it's 51.5megs).

7ajj Amir, if you want them all on a DVD or something, i'll be glad to send them to you.

ws

[m0]

No there isn't. It's just the way they encoded it (double threaded). I have the audio downloaded to my computer (it's 51.5megs).

7ajj Amir, if you want them all on a DVD or something, i'll be glad to send them to you.

ws

Hmm, I will take a look on it tonight. I know mplayer/mencoder can do anything :)- I thought otherwise cause the website has invalid links, I don't know. I will have a look tonight or sometime this week. A bit busy with stuff, it is just introducing more parameters for dumping the stream. I have to find out which now.

[Ya Aba 3abdillah]

^ k habib, let us know how it goes.

[m0]

Alright kids :P

Since its an audio stream with a funky image which is kept static, it came to a conclusion that you can just rip the audio directly without -dumpstream flag. The reason being, is the format that stanford used is kinda strange, MP3 with a picture in the background. But you could still dump the stream as a video using dumpstream, but you can now skip that step and directly apply pcm (pulse code modulation) directly on that stream since its audio with an attached image. We are going to use pcm since we will encode analog audio signals which it is the rtsp audio signal in digital form.

But use this instead, it works perfectly on my computer:

$ mplayer -ao pcm rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm

Now I am checking if the file has been dumped so far it is :

$ ls -lh audiodump.wav 
	  -rw-r--r-- 1 m0 m0 55M 2007-07-12 21:11 audiodump.wav

So now you can continue to Step 3 which is using LAME to convert wav to mp3. Or even use your favorite encoding software to do so, but lame is pretty darn sweet.

Good Luck, ws

*UPDATE: Remember it is dumping it in a raw stream which is a wav format, therefore, you will be expecting more than 500 mb of the audiodump.wav. Then you can encode it to mp3 to around 50~ megs. NOTE: that it will take the whole 50+minutes (the stream length to save that dump) since your saving what your listening...

I have explained it (in greater detail here)

http://www.m0interactive.com/archives/2007...ng_mplayer.html

Edited July 13, 2007 by m0

[Hajj Amir]

Salaam. Thanks for all the help. I really appreciate it and the offer to have the recordings sent to me. This is what I tried:

$ mplayer -ao pcm rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm

and

$ mencoder rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o stream.mp3

but neither work. I looked at m0's website too.

I think I have I installed the codecs properly? I unzipped "windows-essential-20061022.zip" to: "c:\program files\mplayer\codecs"

This is what I get from the 1st line I tried:

C:\Program Files\mplayer>mplayer -ao pcm rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/0

70325.rm

MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.4.2 © 2000-2006 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 1)

CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0

Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring

.

Cannot load bitmap font: c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf

Playing rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm.

Resolving vodreal.stanford.edu for AF_INET...

Connecting to server vodreal.stanford.edu[171.64.17.69]: 554...

Cache size set to 640 KBytes

Cache fill: 2.50% (16384 bytes) rdt chunk not recognized: got 0x4f

rdt chunk not recognized: got 0x2a

Cache fill: 2.75% (18020 bytes)

REAL file format detected.

Stream description: video/x-pn-multirate-realvideo logical stream

Stream mimetype: video/x-pn-realvideo

Stream description: audio/x-pn-multirate-realaudio logical stream

Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio

Stream description: application/x-pn-multirate-realevent logical stream

Stream mimetype: application/x-pn-realevent

Not audio/video stream or unsupported!

VIDEO: [RV40] 160x120 24bpp 15.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)

Clip info:

name: Skepticism: Mar 25, 2007

author: Philosophy Talk Radio

copyright: Ñ2007 Stanford University

==========================================================================

Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder

Error loading dll

ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.so.

Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!

VDecoder init failed :(

Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder

Error loading dll

ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv4.so.6.0.

Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!

VDecoder init failed :(

Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder

Error loading dll

ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv43260.dll.

Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!

VDecoder init failed :(

Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder

Error loading dll

ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc.

Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!

VDecoder init failed :(

Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30345652.

Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!

==========================================================================

==========================================================================

Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders

MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_audio_codec

- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.

Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and

disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.

- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.

It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your

gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read

DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and

won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

[Ya Aba 3abdillah]

Hajj, why don't you try this?

http://www.download.com/HiDownload/3000-20...tml?tag=lst-0-1

The first principle they teach you in IT is the KISS principle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

[Hajj Amir]

^ Yes, you are tight. Recording an audio stream is not a good idea anyway. Much better to download. I'd like to get flashget to do the work, but if not it will have to be HiDownload I guess. Thanks for the offer of the DVD. I wrote a PM and almost sent it to accept your kind offer but didn't in the end. I'll like to see if Flashget can handle it 1st.

[samy]

i like MPlayer/MEncoder alot for my plaback needs. it never let me down.

so, i booted down to cursed XP and for the life of me i couldn't playback the rm file. i'm getting the exact same errors as Amir. i can playback other file types but when it comes to realVideo mplayer crashes, as seen by Amir's error dump.

Edited July 15, 2007 by samy

[m0]

Guys, the reason why I am 'strictly' emphasizing that you have to download the source of MPlayer and compile it directly is because the binaries that you are downloading from the website are outdated, and there website says in the bugs. And your MPlayer is crashing cause you have Intel P4 there is a bug which is on their website which says this....

If you have a Pentium 4 and are experiencing a crash using the RealPlayer codecs, you may need to disable hyperthreading support.

To disable this without disabling hyperthreading support you have to disable a flag while compiling, I believe it is the runtime CPU-detection. That is why when I recompiled it on Linux, I ommited that --runtime-cpu-detection parameter! And it worked fine!

Compiling it under windows is kinda long and advanced users only. I will make a small tutorial on how to compile it under windows if and only if your interested, and I will include the mplayer.exe (new one that I compiled) on my website for download.

It should work... I have now tested it on Windows XP P4, and Linux Celeron M. Both work fine. I am already writing the tutorial as we speak, it is gonna take in total around 2 hours to write. So... in around 30 minutes I will be done!

I will let you know if it will work or not. Inshalla it will. And the reason why it worked for me before, is I always download everything from SVN and recompile it myself. But hey, we discovered something new :s A bug :) And let us see if it works!

ws

Edited July 15, 2007 by m0

[m0]

Aha! I am done! It works perfectly! I recompiled MPlayer under windows ( In my previous blog post, I compiled it under Linux and it worked 100 % as well).

Here is my output, notice, that I didn't include my realvid codecs(or compiled them since I am just using audio, not ripping video, it still works perfectly...

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

© Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Mohamed Mansour>cd c:\mplayer

C:\mplayer>dir

Volume in drive C is root

Volume Serial Number is 6C34-E16E

Directory of C:\mplayer

07/15/2007 05:48 PM <DIR> .

07/15/2007 05:48 PM <DIR> ..

07/15/2007 05:16 PM 6,946,860 audiodump.wav

10/28/2006 01:06 PM 31,955 authors

10/28/2006 01:06 PM 113,347 ChangeLog

02/25/2006 07:43 PM <DIR> codecs

10/28/2006 01:05 PM 3,820 Copyright

06/19/2005 09:12 PM <DIR> drivers

10/28/2006 01:06 PM 17,992 license

10/28/2006 01:12 PM 445,011 man_page.html

07/15/2007 05:02 PM 6,744,047 mencoder.exe

10/28/2006 01:13 PM <DIR> mplayer

07/15/2007 05:02 PM 7,415,667 mplayer.exe

03/27/2005 10:05 PM 5,353 Readme.txt

9 File(s) 21,724,052 bytes

5 Dir(s) 61,090,181,120 bytes free

C:\mplayer>mplayer -ao pcm rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm

MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-3.4.2 © 2000-2007 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 3, Stepping: 4)

CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0

Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font description, ignoring.

Cannot load bitmap font: c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf

Playing rtsp://vodreal.stanford.edu/opa/philo/070325.rm.

Resolving vodreal.stanford.edu for AF_INET...

Connecting to server vodreal.stanford.edu[171.64.17.69]: 554...

Cache size set to 640 KBytes

Cache fill: 18.75% (122880 bytes)

REAL file format detected.

Stream description: video/x-pn-multirate-realvideo logical stream

Stream mimetype: video/x-pn-realvideo

[real] Video stream found, -vid 0

Stream description: audio/x-pn-multirate-realaudio logical stream

Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio

[real] Audio stream found, -aid 1

Stream description: application/x-pn-multirate-realevent logical stream

Stream mimetype: application/x-pn-realevent

Not audio/video stream or unsupported!

VIDEO: [RV40] 160x120 24bpp 15.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)

Clip info:

name: Skepticism: Mar 25, 2007

author: Philosophy Talk Radio

copyright: ⌐2007 Stanford University

==========================================================================

Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder

Error loading dll

ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.so.

Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!

VDecoder init failed :(

Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder

Error loading dll

ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.dll.

Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!

VDecoder init failed :(

Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder

Error loading dll

ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv4.so.6.0.

Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!

VDecoder init failed :(

Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder

Error loading dll

ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv43260.dll.

Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!

VDecoder init failed :(

Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder

Error loading dll

ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc.

Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS!

VDecoder init failed :(

Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30345652.

Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!

==========================================================================

==========================================================================

Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders

AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 95.8 kbit/6.79% (ratio: 11972->176400)

Selected audio codec: [ffcook] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg COOK audio decoder)

==========================================================================

[AO PCM] File: audiodump.wav (WAVE)

PCM: Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le

[AO PCM] Info: Faster dumping is achieved with -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:fast

[AO PCM] Info: To write WAVE files use -ao pcm:waveheader (default).

AO: [pcm] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

Video: no video

Starting playback...

^C

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: decode_audio

C:\mplayer>dir *.wav

Volume in drive C is root

Volume Serial Number is 6C34-E16E

Directory of C:\mplayer

07/15/2007 05:50 PM 11,403,308 audiodump.wav

1 File(s) 11,403,308 bytes

0 Dir(s) 61,085,724,672 bytes free

C:\mplayer>

Notice, I interrupted it after 1 minute or so, just to test, and it dumped 11.4MB, I listened to the .wav file and it works fine!

Take a look at http://www.m0interactive.com/archives/2007...er_windows.html

if you want to learn how to compile MPlayer in windows.

If you wish to download the binaries (mplayer.exe and mencoder.exe) only and just overright your current MPlayer, then just download them (I have included them at the very end of my blog post).

NOTE that you will see some warning errors regarding codecs, I didn't install my realvid codecs so it is normal, I just needed the ffmpeg codecs which is already included when you downoad mplayer from the website. Once you downoad mplayer ffrom website, overright the .exes with the .exes I created.

It works perfectly. Are you happy? lol Be a geek for once :) It is a fun adventure!