playRelated: act, game, hack, media, produce, work __~/bin/mplay #!/bin/sh rxvt -e mplayer "$@" __ MPlayer "'The Movie Player'" mplayerhq.hu mplayerxp.sf.net mplayer.org Save stream example: $ mplayer -noframedrop -dumpstream -dumpfile Gates_LOCKED_CLOSED_Medicine_Pirate.asf http://hqswvilib.who.int:85/streaming/wha58_bill_gates_speech.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf # build from source with support for H.264 $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/ffmpeg login $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co ffmpeg $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer login $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer co -P main $ cp ffmpeg/libavcodec main $ cp ffmpeg/libavutil main Maybe not needed: $ cd ffmpeg $ ./configure && make && sudo make install $ cd .. $ cd main For x264 encoding: $ svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/x264/trunk x264 or get the latest from ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots cd x264 ./configure && make && sudo make install cd .. # create and install mplayer ./configure && make && sudo make install