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Software to rip mms (and rtsp) streams
Hi All -
Wondering if anyone has seen or heard of a linux program that can download stream sources and save them to the HD. There are a couple of win32 ones I've found and the latter (freeware) works great.
Hidownload (urls not allowed yet)
Net Transport (google for it)
As I understand it, they don't have to decode the wma stream, but they do launch multiple streaming processes (for speed) and stitch the source files back together.
There is a particular radio show that I like that is streamed as .wma via a .asx playlist. Once I capture the wma files, I can convert to mp3 and listen elsewhere on my iRiver or a cdrom.
I have been able to stream it and dump it with mplayer and lame, but then it takes 5 hours to capture a five hour show. It's encoded at 20kbps (talk radio) so the whole show only occupies about 50meg. With the above software (depending on how many processes I launch) I can suck the whole thing down in about 25 minutes.
It would be great if there were something like wget that could understand mms:// and rtsp:// URLs.
If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it.
Rob
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