[MPlayer-cygwin] Using mplayer to save RTSP stream to a local file

[Barry Kelly]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:08:41 -0500, compn <tempn at twmi.rr.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:19:43 +0000
> Barry Kelly <barry.j.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:13:59 -0600, Joey Parrish <joey at nicewarrior.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:54:20PM +0000, Barry Kelly wrote:
> > > > Can mplayer/Cygwin (or MinGW) currently save a RTSP stream to a local file?
>
> uhhhhh...

Bear in mind I have never run mplayer, nor have I downloaded it.

> -dumpstream works fine :)
> 
> otherwise for live rtsp streams you can do some trickery
> mplayer rtsp://blah.mov -ao pcm:file=blah.wav -dumpvideo , or run dumpaudio and
> dumpvideo seperately, then combine later with any good video editor.
> 
> unless i am misunderstanding what you want to do?

I'm trying to download video lectures for a course on ocw.mit.edu
(they're streamed from Akamai), so the streams aren't live, but they
are fairly long: 60+ hours. (I have a 2Mb connection here.) Should I
presume that -dumpvideo isn't going to slow down to the speed of the
video itself?

Thanks,

-- Barry