[MPlayer-users] -user-agent being ignored? (Apple keynote)

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Stroller <stroller <at> stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes:

> I'm trying to download yesterday's Jobs show from Apple's site. There  
> is a link on the homepage, and then you can select of 3 sizes. I get  
> the largest:
> 
> wget 
http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jan/1001q3f8hhr1001908r5ft6dswz_1_650_ref.mov 

Using just this url with mplayer works (with a few warnings that I should really
try to silence), so I don't think you have to try to set a user agent.

> As per [1] and [2] I'm trying to set the user agent to be Quicktime,  
> using the command:

Only needed if you want to download a film trailer, "QuickTime" is enough, iirc.

[...]

> However the download fails.

Please note that it is not possible to "download" rtsp streams, you have to
remux them (which may or may not work with mencoder or ffmpeg)

Carl Eugen