[Linux-disciples] Grabbing all of a streaming video

[Adam Kessel]

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:40:27AM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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_8x=
6_Audio_300k.wmv?MSWMExt=3D.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?

It shouldn't need any video output; it goes right to the file
stream.dump.

Then it has a very bad joke: "core dumped :)" -- it makes you think it
segfaulted, but really it means that it successfully dumped the data to a
stream file.

Anyway, it should work remotely, not sure why not for you.

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

http://bostoncoop.net/adam/pub/msstream.asf

(might be another five minutes or so before it actually fully arrives)

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

  geek \geek\ (g[=3De]k), n.
       1. A performer in a carnival, often presented as a wild man,
          who performs grotesquely disgusting acts, such as biting
          the head off a live chicken or snake.
          [PJC]
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Adam Kessel
http://bostoncoop.net/adam

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