[MEncoder-users] re: how capture real video stream

[Rex Pemberton]

Rex Pemberton wrote:

> yo people,
> 
> this is my first posting and very newbie.
> 
> i want to capture real video streams from the internet, in particular
> 'mit world'. they have some very cool stuff that would be worth
> having on the hard disk to watch again.
> 
> how do i do that?

The Wanderer wrote: 

>mplayer <URL> -dumpstream -dumpfile <filename>

thanks for your reply Wanderer. but if i do that mplayer refuses,
saying:

file not seekable
core dumped

is there another way? 

rex