[Ldsoss] Capture of Streamed WMV

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On 5/16/07, John Epeneter <jepeneter at altiris.com> wrote:
> We all knew this day would come....
>
> Someone in my stake wants to show part of the PBS Mormon documentary as
> part of a priesthood talk.  What I need to get is the interview with
> Elder Jensen when he talks about how his mission changed his life.  I
> found it on PBS.org (http://www.pbs.org/mormons/view/) and can view it
> on my computer.  Of course it is a streamed video, so I went to the
> cache and found the ASX file.  Editing the file, I found the MMS URL but
> that is where I get stuck.
>
> I have never found a way to just file-save save the stream to a file.  I
> have found a number of shareware/freeware/trialware programs that are
> supposed to help me do this
> (http://all-streaming-media.com/record-video-stream/record-streaming-vid
> eo-windows-media.htm), and have tried most of them with little
> satisfaction.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion?
> -John-
> PS.  Yes, I think this is fair use and therefore have little concern for
> copyright issues.
> _______________________________________________

mplayer supports a mode where you give it an URL to an asx file, it
will parse the file and then play the stream, BUT you can also dump
that stream to a file using the -dumpstream command line option, if
you also use -dumpfile <filename> it will dump the stream to that file
(otherwise it uses ./stream.dump). From there you should be able to
transcode it to whatever format your heart desires. It all depends on
how the streaming server is setup though. There may be other options
as well, just one I have used in the past.

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