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
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