[ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again

[C L Chatfield]

I think these things are to stop indepth news analysis.

For example the police operation Ore was stopped when they turned
up at Downing Street.  The story was on bbc site but I can't find it
anymore.

If you can't save the evidence then you can't make a case.
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 23:27 +0000, alan c wrote:
> 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
> 
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