Save streaming video to computer?

[SuRGV]

Hi guys,

There is a link to view a soccer match on the Net using Windows Media Player. Is there any way I can save it to my computer for later use or lend my friends ?

SuRGV

[Gurm]

If someone wrote an app to snag the overlay, people would be ALL over it. I can only assume that it hasn't been written yet. But I've been known to be wrong. Anyone?

- Gurm

[dZeus]

overlay is 'uncompressed', so capturing that would be a bit tedious because of the high bitrate. Most streams can be dumped in their original, compressed, format some way of the other. I think there's a plugin for winamp that allows you do save streams (of some sorts).

Then agian, HypersnapDX (sp?) allows you to capture overlay frames.

[SuRGV]

Gurm,
Thanks for the reply.
I just found this CoCSoft Stream Down 3.0 and it seems downloading the whole streaming file.
I will let you guys know how it foes when it's completed

[SuRGV]

all files are downloaded and played without problem. Can't fastforward though.

[dZeus]

if you dumped the streams to .avi, you can probably build an index with virtualdub (which you need for (faster?) seeking inside the file).

[magician]

Originally posted by Gurm
If someone wrote an app to snag the overlay, people would be ALL over it. I can only assume that it hasn't been written yet. But I've been known to be wrong. Anyone?

- Gurm

regarding snaging overlay.... all you have to do is to insert a multiplexer filter, between decoder and renderer, and build up filtergraph with it.

Multiplexing filter should have one input and two output pins, from which one should be connected to the renderer's intput and the other to a source filter, which will perform wrighting to a file.

I'm not a DX or a programming expert, but I know that much.

Edit: I like your avatar. Is it a guy from "Full Matal Jacket"?

[magician]

Originally posted by dZeus
overlay is 'uncompressed', so capturing that would be a bit tedious because of the high bitrate. ...

Oh, yeah... you could also insert some DX compression filter to the other filtergraph path, and save a compresed file.

[TnT]

If you can find out the akamai stored file you may be able to save the file. Wouldn't know how to go about that for wmvs. I know some have done it to get quicktime streams in linux. I believe for those it is done by saving the file that is given by saving the embedded movie. Then running 'strings' on it and splicing together the right text to find the URL that is the source movie.

[Marshmallowman]

Most streaming files get buffered in cache, I usually just find the file with the right size/date time and renamcce it to ".avi" or whatever.
Does not always work but it does 98% of the time. Its easy with firebird/mozilla but I think IE is trickier becasue "temporary internet files" is a *special* MS directory.

[runderwo]

I love mplayer -dumpstream

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by runderwo
I love mplayer -dumpstream

explain...

[runderwo]

If a server only offers a video by a streaming protocol (rtsp, mms, etc) so that you can't directly retrieve the file by normal means, -dumpstream option of mplayer will "stream" the video but save it to disk so that you can play it later like any other file. I have used it to grab things from mtv.com and sites like that where almost everything is offered as streaming protocols only. ex: mplayer -dumpstream rtsp://video.stream.com/path/to/stream/somevideo.ram

[Gurm]

That, runderwo, is good to know.

- Gurm

[dZeus]

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