saving streaming video to disk

[Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu>]

On Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 09:24:06 -0500, I wrote:

> Our local public-access cable station posts most of its shows on the web
> as streaming video.
> ...
> Is there a way I can download the whole video (as WMV or ASF) to my hard
> drive?

On Sun Feb  3 10:01:45 2008, narendra.sisodiya@gmail.com replied:

> mplayer http://path_to_stream -dumpstream -dumpfile outFileName

and on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:44:09 +0000, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org>
replied:

> mplayer -noframedrop -dumpfile out.ra -dumpstream 'rtsp://<ra file>'

I tested the first of these, and it worked great.  Thank you.