wireless cam stops after 17 hours with mplayer

[Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de (Reimar Döffinger)]

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:08:32AM -0700, Charles Ross wrote:
>? Cam 2 (the 
> problem cam) uses mplayer in a script once a minute to grab images.? So I can still go to the linksys camera network page at 192.168.1.19 and see the settings but I cannot view video either on this page or via mplayer.? 

Sounds like MPlayer makes the video part of the camera crash or something like that.

> Is there a wget command to grab just one image and save it as a jpeg?? I
>  know you can it can save a stream (.asf file) but I"m not sure about 
> just one image.? If so, please let me know how to do that and I'll 
> check.? 

Seems wget can't, but something like curl -r 0-1048576 will download the
first 1 MB from which you should be able to extract one image with MPlayer.