[MPlayer-dev-eng] Rip realvideo

[Sander Plas]

Nuno Gonçalves schreef:
> I want to rip about 1000 videos from a streaming server because it would be
> really nice to have them saved forever.
> 
> They are using a Real server, for example:
> rtsp://mcmreal.mediacapital.pt/dbvideo/4902269
> 
> The main problem is that I want to go across the intent of RTP and request
> every frame that might get lost to guarantee that I’m getting the best
> quality possible. Otherwise there were some programs that enabled to be
> called from command line to download all videos as a batch.

Have you thought about trying to persuade the server to use the 
"Embedded (Interleaved) Binary Data" mode (see RFC 2326 section 10.12)? 
This streams the stream data over TCP, which should ensure that no 
packets are lost. I'm not sure if RealServer is capable of doing this 
though.

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Sander Plas