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Submitted as as new hint...
But in my opinion, it's just an expansion on this one, so here's 'anonymous' comment:
After getting bored of watching buffering counters slowly count up to 100% in Windows Media Player and Real(One)Player, I stumbled across an old hint (Rip MP3 and windows media streams from the command line). Reviewing this, I downloaded the latest binary on mplayer compiled for Mac OS 10.3. Using the -dumpfile and -dumpstream command, I was able to capture (and watch flawlessly) Windows Media and Real Media streams (namely 'Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers' at http://www.pbs.org/saf). Previous versions did not allow Real Media streams, but the addition is a welcome one.-rob.
Submitted as as new hint...
When viewing and copying the rtsp URL out of the file for use on the command line, remember to properly escape special characters. One site uses a
character in all its rtsp URLs, which has to be entered as on the command line (whether quotes are used or not).I had trouble getting any version of mplayer to rip and dumpfile certain rtsp streams (most streams worked, though), in particular, the vids off the Australian Big Brother site. After several days of messing around, the solution that worked for me was to download the RealPlayer 8 PPC codecs from the mplayer site, then download and build the live.com streaming libraries (the docs tell you where to place the RealPlayer PPC codecs) and finally building mplayer v1.0pre4 (with the options set to include streaming, of course). It took an age to go through all this nonsense, but I have since not encountered an unrippable rtsp stream anywhere. |
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