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command line tool to play swf internet streams?
Ive been successful in the past being able to play asx/mms/asf and so on streams using mplayer and vlc from the command line BUT I have found an internet stream that has me beat.. At least so far. But I vow to fight him till the death! What command line tool can play this stream? Im using CentOS 5.1. I've tried mplayer, vlc,mencoder and it wont play. error outputs below.
the stream is: http://assets.espn.go.com/swf/espnra...C&mp3cs=WTEMAM it plays fine in a web browser. But I need to be able to play it command line. thanks! mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile test.swf "http://assets.espn.go.com/swf/espnradio/08/stations_stw1.swf?&callsign=WTEMAMAAC&mp3cs=WTEMAM" MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 6, Stepping: 5) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. 115 audio & 237 video codecs Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory Can't init input joystick mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing http://assets.espn.go.com/swf/espnra...C&mp3cs=WTEMAM. Resolving assets.espn.go.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: assets.espn.go.com Resolving assets.espn.go.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server assets.espn.go.com[72.246.48.33]: 80... Cache size set to 320 KBytes Stream not seekable! Core dumped ;) Exiting... (End of file) _______________________________________________ mplayer -playlist "http://assets.espn.go.com/swf/espnradio/08/stations_stw1.swf?&callsign=WTEMAMAAC&mp3cs=WTEMAM" MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 6, Stepping: 5) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Resolving assets.espn.go.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: assets.espn.go.com Resolving assets.espn.go.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server assets.espn.go.com[72.246.48.33]: 80... Cache size set to 320 KBytes 115 audio & 237 video codecs Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory Can't init input joystick mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing http://assets.espn.go.com/swf/espnradio/08/CWS Resolving assets.espn.go.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: assets.espn.go.com Resolving assets.espn.go.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server assets.espn.go.com[72.246.48.18]: 80... Server returned 400: Bad Request STREAM_ASF, URL: http://assets.espn.go.com/swf/espnradio/08/CWS Resolving assets.espn.go.com for AF_INET6.. ____________ vlc -I dummy "http://assets.espn.go.com/swf/espnradio/08/stations_stw1.swf?&callsign=WTEMAMAAC&mp3cs=WTEMAM" VLC media player 0.8.6d Janus [00000296] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module... [swf @ 0x8573cf4]Compressed SWF format not supported [00000311] ffmpeg demuxer error: av_open_input_stream failed [00000290] main playlist: nothing to play |
SWF (Shockwave flash) is a closed format. There are a couple of open source projects, such as swfdec and gnash. However, they're not good enough that I would really recommend them. The only software that I'd recommend that can play a swf file is Adobe's flash plugin. However, it's not standalone and obviously cannot be accessed through a terminal.
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I might check out that gnash, thanks for replying.
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what a PAIN IN THE ASS that gnash is to install and I couldn't get it to record anything.. oh well
I found out that Audacity 1.3.5 has a Timer Record option! yay! Ive been waiting on this from audacity for years.. So all I have to do is make sure the player is playing the stream and set audacity to record for x time frame. |
*.swf isn't a stream. You can't play one until it is fully downloaded.
It's a flash movie. You can use either firefox plugin, or you can use windows standalone flash players with wine (I do it this way). The link you've provided is a "player" (for another audio stream) written in flash (works in firefox with flash plugin just fine). Most likely you won't be able to play that link outside of browser. But this "player" gets it's audio data from somewhere, and if you'll be able to guess from where, then you'll be able to play it without using that "player". |
You can download a standalone Flash Player from http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html, which you can launch from the command line.
I've been trying to get it to work under Damn Small Linux, so I can play downloaded .swf games, but with little success. It runs if I install the GTK2 myDSL extension, but crashes rather quickly. If anybody has any ideas on what I could do to correct that problem, I'd be most appreciative. The Adobe site doesn't list any options that the flashplayer supports from the command line. If anybody knows of any, I'd also be appreciative. Maybe if I had those command line options I could find a way to run flashplayer without it crashing. |
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Yes. I know that. THAT'S THE PROBLEM. I can't find a way to hack it to get the audio location. Anyways. I'm downloading a Fedora 9 Live CD to test on a system. From the release notes: 10.5.1. Enabling Flash Plugin Fedora includes swfdec and gnash , which are free and open source implementations of Flash. We encourage you to try either or them before seeking out Adobe's proprietary Flash plugin software. Users of Fedora x86_64 must install the nspluginwrapper.i386 package to enable the 32-bit Adobe Flash plugin in x86_64 Firefox and the pulseaudio-libs.i386 package to enable sound from the plugin. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/releas...g-Flash-Plugin So Im going to try that once it's finished downloading and I burn the CD. Will report back with my findings. |
ok I booted up with a Fedora 9 Live CD
had to use yum to install: gnash swfdec Had to install adobe flash rpm from: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...ShockwaveFlash installed the java run time from here http://java.com/en/download/linux_ma...&host=java.com followed the install instructions for the rpm the flash player loads and it says its connecting then it says buffereing then it says on air But no sound I know the soundcard is working as I get system sounds as well as I can play streams from shoutcast.com This stream plays on my laptop running vista so I know the stream works flash yum -y install gnash swfdec rpm -ivh flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386.rpm audacity yum -y libid3tag jack-audio-connection-kit wxGTK rpm -ivh libmms-0.3-1.rh9.rf.i386.rpm soundtouch-1.3.1-10.fc9.i386.rpm rpm -ivh audacity-1.3.5-0.5.beta.fc9.i386.rpm |
ok. started over. I installed mythdora on a spare PC so set up as a PVR and decided to use it to record my stream. So I installed the flash packagers installed alsa-kmdl-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.i686 and then I was able to install alsa-driver using yum from atrpms.
then I can use arecord to record from MIX and that records what is coming through the sound card. So I just leave the stream up and set a cron job to record the time frame I need. |
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gnash 'http://assets.espn.go.com/swf/espnradio/08/stations_stw1.swf?&callsign=WTEMAMAAC&mp3cs=WTEMAM' |
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