Saving RealMedia streams to file

[Michael]

Freddie Ruddick wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 17:48 +0100, Michael wrote:
>   
>> I'm familiar with the facility in mplayer that allows you to save a 
>> RealMedia stream to an .rm file, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to 
>> be a way of accelerating the download.
>>     
>
> If you add the argument "-bandwidth 999999999999" to your mplayer
> command, it will go faster. I can normally D/L a 1hr streamed programme
> (from the BBC) in ~5mins.
>
> eg  mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile ~/whatever -bandwidth 999999999999 -ao
> null rtsp://whatever.com/whatever
>
> HTH
>
> Freddie
>
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>
>   
Thanks, Freddie. I also added the -noframedrop option (I gather this 
prevents snarl-ups resulting from mplayer converting between formats on 
the fly).

Michael