Save Online Streaming Video

by freak on August 24, 2009

Recently my brother asked me to saved online streaming video of Sagarmata FM. I tried VLC for recording the streaming video but had no luck. So I thought that the video can be dumped some command line tools like mplayer. I download the latest version of mplayer in the repo.


sudo apt-get install mplayer

[Note: I'm using Ubuntu Karmic Koala]

After installing mplayer, I checked out its user manual and found out a useful commandline option:
mplayer -dumpstream streamurl

So, to save the online streaming Sagarmatha TV, I used the command
mplayer -dumpstream mms://64.62.166.162/sm

Here the url mms://64.62.166.162/sm is the online streaming Sagarmatha Channel.

I found out the video is saved as stream.dump by default.

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