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I often download rtmp videos from techtalks.tv using

mplayer -dumpstream rtmpurl

When I play the stream in vlc, I cannot move to an arbitrary location - it crashes. Why is this? Can I convert the stream to some other format where I can jump to an arbitrary location like any mp4/mpeg video? How do I do that?

elexhobby
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  • you are playing the resultant file, is that right? if you play it in mplayer can it seek? – rogerdpack Nov 19 '13 at 17:08
  • Yes I'm playing the stream.dump file. It cannot seek in mplayer either. – elexhobby Nov 19 '13 at 18:11
  • you might be able to run mencoder and rebuild the index (http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2004-December/050174.html) or repackage it somehow to a new container format using mencoder or ffmpeg. GL! – rogerdpack Nov 19 '13 at 21:02
  • Thanks. It just does 2 mins of conversion and then gives an error about "Too many audio packets in the buffer". I'll ask on the mplayer forums itself. – elexhobby Nov 19 '13 at 22:50
  • ffmpeg -vcodec copy -acodec copy out.avi maybe... – rogerdpack Nov 22 '13 at 18:40

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