How to rip streaming media for later use?

calande · 11-23-2007, 02:42 PM

Hello,

I'm on a fairly slow Internet connection and even with a 1-minute buffer, my media player skips from time to time when I play a streaming video. What I'd like to do is download the streaming video (it's a 90MiB file), save it as wmv (for instance) and watch it locally. The URL of the video is:

Code:

mms://sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net/horsgv/regions/siege/infos/f2/20h/HD_20h_20071123.wmv?WMCache=0

How could I do it please?
Thanks.

ncsuapex · 11-23-2007, 02:57 PM

try this
command is a one liner.

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile HD_20h_20071123.wmv mms://sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net/horsgv/regions/siege/infos/f2/20h/HD_20h_20071123.wmv

if it doesnt work try it with the "?WMCache=0" after .wmv in the URL

calande · 11-23-2007, 06:01 PM

Thanks, it's not working as expected...

Code:

%mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile HD_20h_20071123.wmv mms://sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net/horsgv/regions/siege/infos/f2/20h/HD_20h_20071123.wmv
MPlayer 1.0rc2-SUSE Linux 10.3 (i686)-Packman-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing mms://sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net/horsgv/regions/siege/infos/f2/20h/HD_20h_20071123.wmv.
STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net/horsgv/regions/siege/infos/f2/20h/HD_20h_20071123.wmv
Resolving sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net
Resolving sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net for AF_INET...
Connecting to server sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net[81.52.201.106]: 1755...
Connected
unknown object
unknown object
file object, packet length = 1444 (1444)
unknown object
unknown object
stream object, stream ID: 1
stream object, stream ID: 2
unknown object
data object
mmst packet_length = 1444
Cache size set to 64 KBytes
Stream not seekable!
%

Or...

Code:

%mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile HD_20h_20071123.wmv mms://sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net/horsgv/regions/siege/infos/f2/20h/HD_20h_20071123.wmv?WMCache=0
MPlayer 1.0rc2-SUSE Linux 10.3 (i686)-Packman-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing mms://sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net/horsgv/regions/siege/infos/f2/20h/HD_20h_20071123.wmv?WMCache=0.
STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net/horsgv/regions/siege/infos/f2/20h/HD_20h_20071123.wmv?WMCache=0
Resolving sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net for AF_INET6...
Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net
Resolving sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net for AF_INET...
Connecting to server sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net[80.12.192.79]: 1755...
Connected
unknown object
unknown object
file object, packet length = 1444 (1444)
unknown object
unknown object
stream object, stream ID: 1
stream object, stream ID: 2
unknown object
data object
mmst packet_length = 1444
Cache size set to 64 KBytes
Stream not seekable!

Any idea?

teckk · 11-23-2007, 07:40 PM

It's a news broadcast in French.

That is how you download it with mplayer

Code:

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile name_it.wmv mms://sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net/horsgv/regions/siege/infos/f2/20h/HD_20h_20071123.wmv

If you can't capture the stream with mplayer by dumping the stream then your installation of mplayer is messed up. I've saved streams hundreds of times with mplayer that way. Works on Linux, BSD, and Windows version of mplayer. Or you may not have the correct codecs installed.

Another method would be to use mmsclient.

calande · 11-28-2007, 01:55 PM

Thanks guys, I got it working this way

Code:

mplayer -dumpstream mms://sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net/horsgv/regions/siege/infos/f2/20h/HD_20h_20071127.wmv -dumpfile journal.wmv

Do you know how I could set up a cronjob to run this script everyday at 6:00pm and to change the date in the URL of the video? For instance:

Code:

mplayer -dumpstream mms://sdmc.contents.edgestreams.net/horsgv/regions/siege/infos/f2/20h/HD_20h_200711${DAY}.wmv -dumpfile journal.wmv

Or something like this in Bash. Thanks again

Brons · 07-17-2008, 06:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by calande

Do you know how I could set up a cronjob to run this script everyday at 6:00pm and to change the date in the URL of the video?

Old thread, but since nobody answered. This is how I did it.
It's a radio chanel, but video ought to work the same way.
I always add a couple of minutes at the beginning and the end of the show, and then edit the wav-file in kwave before converting it to mp3 with lame.

In crontab, e.g.:

Code:

# Record Radio
52 19 23 7 * ~/bin/radio1
58 20 23 7 * ~/bin/radio2

radio1:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
exec 2> /dev/null               # send error output to /dev/null
TIMESTAMP=`date +%y%m%d_%H%M`
mplayer -really-quiet -ao pcm:file=Radio_$TIMESTAMP.wav -vc dummy -vo null rtsp://rm-live.sr.se/broadcast/srminnen.rm

radio2:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
exec 2> /dev/null               # send error output to /dev/null
killall -6 mplayer

resetreset · 07-19-2008, 03:20 AM

i dont see why mplayer should even be needed. i'm sure netcat by itself will do it, but i cant tell you the actual cmd