[ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again

[alan c]

Gavin Ford wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:53:43PM +0000, alan c wrote:
>> One of the rare occasions just happened - I wanted to capture a video 
>> clip from the bbc site. The previous technique I used does not now 
>> seem to work on this site, maybe they have changed their approach or 
>> something?
>> 
>> The particular clip I want is entitled
>> 'Rufus' review'
>> and is not far down in the main article
>> at
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7140443.stm
>> 
>> I am using gutsy, with mplayer (plugin) in firefox. The clip plays ok 
>>   in the browser, I just want to capture the clip.
>> I have looked in the mozilla cache, video does not seem to be cached 
>> it seems, not there anyway (firefox 2.0.0.11)
>> The url of the target clip seems to be
>> rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title="BBC"&author="BBC"&copyright="(C) 
>> British Broadcasting Corporation"
>> and using cl (in a test of playing it prior to using dumpstream etc 
>> etc) I obtain:
>> 
>> ==================================
>> user1 at my-pc:~$ mplayer -playlist 
>> rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title="BBC"&author="BBC"&copyright="(C) 
>> British Broadcasting Corporation"
>> and at this stage it just does nothing more, apparently waiting (??)
>> Any ideas please?  Tia.
> 
> 
> The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it, try it in
> single quotes like this:
> 
> mplayer 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title="BBC"&author="BBC"&copyright="(C)British Broadcasting Corporation"'

Thanks, however that does not seem to work.
Also a similar thing happens even when the title part is omitted entirely.
-- 
alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391