[Linux-disciples] Grabbing all of a streaming video

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:19:15AM -0500, Adam Kessel wrote:
> I was able to save it to disk with:
> 
> mplayer -dumpstream http://207.46.249.94:80/ms/windows/wxp/prodactiv_8x6_Audio_300k.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf
> 
> In the past, for embeded quicktime movies, I've had to do:
> 
> mplayer -vo yuv2mpeg -ao pcm http://url_of_stream
> cat stream.yuv | yuv2lav -o a.avi
> lavaddwav a.avi audiodump.wav full.avi

I just tried running that 'mplayer' command from remotely (via
ssh), and it looked to be stalled. I suspect it looked stalled
because it was playing the video on the other end. So: does that
mplayer command play the actual stream? I'd assume I could just
redirect to stdout?

Perhaps the easiest would be if you just sent me (a URL to) the
stream. Is that cool?

Thanks a lot. I knew I could count on my geeks.

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