Mplayer (or other) capture of wvx, asf files?

[Guest cid]

I know I can play this with Mplayer, and they play superbly well, very good buffering and everything else.

 

But is there a way to save a stream? In Windows, there was an app called Hinet Recorder that could do this.

 

Bascially, what I'd like to do as a command line representation (of course I'm ignoring all switches here, but you get the gist)

 

Save the wvx to the local system.

 

% mplayer stream1.wvx > stream1.wmv

 

And have the linked wmv saved on the local machine.

 

Thanks

[mtweidmann]

I know its a bit of a cheat but you could use a seperate recording app, something like krecord. Just set the correct channel to record.

[Guest cid]

I'll have to try it when I get home...

 

It would appear that you can use a very simple mplayer switch(es):

 

-dumpstream (MPLAYER only)  

Dumps the raw stream to ./:stream.dump. Useful when ripping from DVD or network.  

 

 

-dumpfile <filename> (MPLAYER only)  

Specify which file MPlayer should dump to. Should be used together with -dumpaudio / -dumpvideo / -dumpstream.

[Guest SDMF]

Yeah, that's what I was going to suggest. Never used it before, but I've used -dumpaudio to save the audio track from video files. According to what the man page says, -dumpaudio should theoretically work for streams.

[Guest cid]

Can't seem to get it to work yet...

 

Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but using -dumpstream hasn't yielded me any saved files.

 

I'll have to keep at it and update you.

 

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