Bug 95956

Summary:	ffmpeg doesn't record on KMplayer
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmplayer	Reporter:	Giovanni Venturi <giovanni>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Koos Vriezen <koos.vriezen>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Giovanni Venturi 2004-12-29 00:36:18 UTC

Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.3.90 (alpha1, CVS >= 20041206), compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.10

Which is the correct way for recording a streaming? I cannot record from http://musica.virgilio.it/multimedia/goldrake_video/adsl/index.html
It's an ASX. I never used the record with KMplayer, so I click on the record button than I click on "Start recording" button. I selected Xine for playing and ffmpeg for record. I've got them installed correctly on the system.

Comment 1 Koos Vriezen 2004-12-29 18:26:08 UTC

CVS commit by vriezen: 

Also read text/plain mimes and make mplayer handle 
http://musica.virgilio.it/multimedia/goldrake_video/adsl/index.html too.

CCBUG: 95956


  M +1 -0      kmplayerpartbase.cpp   1.131


--- kdeextragear-2/kmplayer/src/kmplayerpartbase.cpp  #1.130:1.131
@@ -1035,4 +1035,5 @@ static bool isPlayListMime (const QStrin
             !strcmp (mimestr ,"application/smil") ||
             !strcmp (mimestr ,"text/xml") ||
+            !strcmp (mimestr ,"text/plain") ||
             !strcmp (mimestr ,"application/x-mplayer2"));
 }

Comment 2 Koos Vriezen 2004-12-29 18:30:25 UTC

This asx contains the url
mms://media.tin.it/users/matrix/nettv/caraturo/goldrake_adsl.wmv
which was properly found with Xine (I fixed it, so MPlayer should handle this too). When you start recording, it jumps to the first playable url in the ASX, that's the mms://...wmv url. 
Most likely in your config is ffmpeg as recorder. You better choose either mencoder or 'mplayer -dumpstream', because ffmpeg is limited wrt. its input (and I think mms:// is not supported by ffmpeg).

Does this help, can you record now?

Comment 3 Giovanni Venturi 2004-12-29 20:10:05 UTC

Oh, yes. With ffmpeg I can't get it, but with MEncoder I get it. Is it 
difficult to get a response with KMplayer? For example, if I get an error 
with ffmpeg because it cannot record that kind of stream can't KMplayer try 
for MPlayer or MEncoder or tell user: "Sorry, I can't record this stream 
because you has not the right program installed" or something like this? 
Could be usefull. Thank you. Good work. When I can see KMplayer into 
kdemultimedia? For KDE 4?

Comment 4 Justin Zobel 2021-03-11 01:23:54 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.

Comment 5 Christoph Cullmann 2025-06-09 21:04:58 UTC

This project is unfortunately no longer maintained.

If a new maintainer wants to step up and take care, the project is archived here:

https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kmplayer

You can just clone it in your private namespace on invent.kde.org and if you have started to work on it and fixed/implemented something get it reviewed and the project unarchived.

Sorry for the inconveniences.