[ubuntu-uk] BBC Click includes Ubuntu

[Rob Beard]

Alan c wrote:
> 
> The recent weekend TV program of BBC Click was devoted to Open source,
> Ubuntu, an an interview with Mark Shuttleworth.
> I  can manage to get it to play using Real player, but I cannot think
> of how to capture the stream to view it later.
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/
> ('watch now')
> 
> Any ideas please?
> --
> alan cocks
> Kubuntu user#10391
> 

I'm trying to dump the WMV stream with Mplayer.  Then in theory I should 
be able to re-encode it into AVI format with Mencoder.

The command line I'm using to dump the stream is:

mplayer 
http://wm-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms2/news/n5ctrl/tvseq/od/bbc1/bb/wm/video/click_bb.wmv 
-dumpstream -dumpfile "dump.wmv"


Then I'm hoping that this will work to encode it into AVI:

mencoder dump.wmv -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o encodedvideo.avi

I haven't however got the whole stream dumped yet though so it may not work.

Anyway, for future reference there is a link on the Ubuntu forums with 
regards to converting video files here: 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2810792

Ta,

Rob