QUESTION :
I’m trying to rip the video at http://videolectures.net/ecml07_getoor_isr/, so I can play it at a faster speed. I paste http://193.2.4.216/2007/pascal/ecml07_warsaw/getoor_lise/ecml07_getoor_isr_01.wmv into a firefox browser in Windows and MediaPlayer plays the thing. However if I try mplayer -dumpstream, it gets stuck into an infinite loop trying to play the file.
If I use wget to download the link, I get a small text file which basically points to the same URL. How can I get mplayer to download this stream?
ANSWER :
I don’t know how to make the mplayer plugin capture a stream, but mplayer itself can capture streams fairly well. Try running from the command line. Either:
wget < your url > -O - | mplayer -cache 8192 -
or
mplayer < your url > -dumpstream -dumpfile < out file >