image capture problem - latest version of mplayer

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

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 03:58:20PM +0200, Oliver Seitz wrote:
> 
> Good:
> 
> > User-Agent: NSPlayer/4.1.0.3856
> > Host: 192.168.1.19:80
> > Pragma: xClientGUID={c77e7400-738a-11d2-9add-0020af0a3278}
> > Pragma:
> > no-cache,rate=1.000000,stream-time=0,stream-offset=0:0,request-context=1,max-duration=0
> > Connection: Close
> >
> > ]
> > Response [HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > Content-type: application/octet-stream
> > Connection: close
> 
> Bad:
> 
> > User-Agent: NSPlayer/4.1.0.3856
> > Host: 192.168.1.19:80
> > Pragma: xClientGUID={c77e7400-738a-11d2-9add-0020af0a3278}
> > Pragma:
> > no-cache,rate=1.000000,stream-time=0,stream-offset=0:0,request-context=1,max-duration=0
> > Connection: Close
> > ?
> > ]
> > ? ===> ASF/HTTP failed
> 
> Looks like your camera refuses to respond after round about 1000
> connections. I have no clue why. But why don't you keep the stream
> running, just taking a snapshot every minute?

No idea if it's the same person, but I said it before:
use e.g. curl to verify this has anything to do with MPlayer at all.
Probably the webserver in your camera has a memleak and crashes after
a certain number of connections.
Find a different method, or better ask them for a fix or return under
warranty.