How to record video streaming
Often I see a beautiful streaming videos in a variety kind of formats and some persons that are trying to grab those videos without any concrete result. I want to share with you how to capture those streams and convert in a more "usable" AVI format.
Well... the only thing to do is open your unix shell and check if you have installed mplayer, then run this simple command
$ mplayer "mms://url" -dumpstream -dumpfile video_out.avi
Where mms://url is the URL of the stream
and video_out.avi is the output of the video recorded.
That's all.
Note:
This workaround is only possible to streams play-ables with mplayer. For sites like youtube or similar that encode video in flash format, you can't do what I've just write.
Disclaimer:
Some sites licenses can't allow you to grab any video. So, please read carefully sites licenses before record any streams.