[ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again

[Gavin Ford]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:10:08AM +0000, C L Chatfield wrote:
> If you use Xvidcap with a good graphics card,
> would it work?
> 
> I cant capture totem images with it but can record screenshots.

You don't need to with mplayer, you can add the -dumpstream option and it will
dump the content to a file called stream.dump rather than display it.

Like so (copy/paste this into your terminal one line at a time):

mplayer -dumpstream 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/busi'\
'ness/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title="BBC"&author="BBC"&copyright="('\
'C)British Broadcasting Corporation"'

Just rename the file to whatever.rm and all is well.

  -Gav