Steve Kleene wrote: > Our local public-access cable station posts most of its shows on the web as > streaming video. I can play these in Iceweasel, which calls the mplayer > plugin. While a show is playing, two identical processes are running, e.g.: > > mplayer -wid 0x160192b -vf scale=320:-3 -osdlevel 1 -nojoystick \ > -noconsolecontrols -cookies -softvol -slave -user-agent NSPlayer \ > -nomouseinput -cache 512 > http://70.61.148.132/WXOD/WCT%2016283.WMV?MSWMExt=.asf > > I can also play the show just by pasting the last argument > (http://70.61.148.132/WXOD/WCT%2016283.WMV?MSWMExt=.asf) into the browser URL > window. > > Is there a way I can download the whole video (as WMV or ASF) to my hard > drive? I messed with wget briefly without success.
It might be worth looking into the mplayer arguments named 'dumpfile' and 'dumpstream'. I remember having some success with streaming to file using a command line like mplayer -noframedrop -dumpfile out.ra -dumpstream 'rtsp://<ra file>' Recently I've also been playing around with the streaming support in VLC[1]. It support streaming to file through its 'sout' argument[2]. /M [1]: http://www.videolan.org/ [2]: http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch06.html#id297783 -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus．therning＠gmail．com http://therning.org/magnus What if I don't want to obey the laws? Do they throw me in jail with the other bad monads? -- Daveman
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