Hey all,<br><br>I'm trying to download the streaming news program from this page: <a href="http://iwatch.be/2007/player.php?category_id=hetnieuws&item_id=hetnieuws_3_19&dc=nieuws">http://iwatch.be/2007/player.php?category_id=hetnieuws&item_id=hetnieuws_3_19&dc=nieuws</a><br>
<br>It plays just fine on Ubuntu Jaunty (Yay!), but now I want to download that program because I have a small guest appearance in it.<br><br>Some poking around in the source code reveals the URL <a href="http://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv">http://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv</a> but downloading that doesn't give me a .wmv file but a text file with 2 other URLs in. Trying to download from those URLs gives time-out errors.<br>
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">$ wget <a href="http://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv">http://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv</a><br>
--2009-03-23 21:12:09-- <a href="http://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv">http://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv</a><br>Resolving streaming.vtm.be... 194.0.174.8<br>Connecting to <a href="http://streaming.vtm.be">streaming.vtm.be</a>|194.0.174.8|:80... connected.<br>
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK<br>Length: 159 [video/x-ms-wvx]<br>Saving to: `20090318_hn19.wmv'<br><br>100%[======================================>] 159 --.-K/s in 0s <br><br>2009-03-23 21:12:09 (6.37 MB/s) - `20090318_hn19.wmv' saved [159/159]<br>
</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">$ file 20090318_hn19.wmv</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">20090318_hn19.wmv: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">$ cat 20090318_hn19.wmv</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[Reference]</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Ref1=<a href="http://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf">http://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Ref2=<a href="http://192.168.68.71:80/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf">http://192.168.68.71:80/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">$ wget <a href="http://192.168.68.71:80/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv">http://192.168.68.71:80/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">--2009-03-20 20:46:20-- <a href="http://192.168.68.71/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv">http://192.168.68.71/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Connecting to 192.168.68.71:80... failed: Connection timed out.</span><br></div><br>When I play the streaming file in Totem it gives as location <a href="mmsh://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv">mmsh://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv</a><br>
<br>After installing mplayer and mimms, I also tried:<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">$ mplayer -dumpstream mmsh://<a href="http://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv">streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv</a> -dumpfile </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2009_03_18_nieuws_vtm.wmv</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8100 @ </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">2.10GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Stepping: 6)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Compiled with runtime CPU detection.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">mplayer: could not connect to socket</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">mplayer: No such file or directory</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Playing mmsh://<a href="http://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv">streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv</a>.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">No stream found to handle url mmsh://<a href="http://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv">streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Exiting... (End of file)</span><br></div><br>I the tried VLC. First I selected Media > Convert/Save > Network tab > paste mmsh://<a href="http://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv">streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv</a> as network protocol and checked as output File and Dump raw input. I then get a popup with the message:<br>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">VLC can't recognize the input's format:</span></p>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The format of 'mmsh://<a href="http://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv">streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv</a>' cannot be detected. Have a look the log for details.<br>
<br></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The log file gives the following information:<br><br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[00000410] access_mms access error: cannot read data 2</span></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[00000413] main demux error: no demux module matched "dump :demuxdump-file="</span></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[00000408] main input error: no suitable demux module for `mmsh/://<a href="http://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv">streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv</a>'</span></span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span>Next I triedthe following command from the commandline:<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: courier new,monospace;">
</p><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">$ vlc mms://<a href="http://streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv">streaming.vtm.be/VTM/agility/20090318_hn19.wmv</a> --sout file/avi:movie.avi</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">VLC media player 0.9.8a Grishenko</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.8a Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--enable-maintaner-mode'<br>[... some more flags snipped ...] 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2'</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[00000001] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[00000417] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[00000417] access_mms access error: failed to open a connection (tcp)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[00000417] access_mms access error: cannot connect to server</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[00000417] access_mms access error: cannot read data 2</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[00000414] main mux error: cannot add a new stream (unsupported while muxing to this format). You can try increasing sout-mux-caching value</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[00000422] main packetizer error: cannot create packetizer output (wma2)</span><br></div><br>After moe then half an hour it giva the impression that it was stalled, so I killed the process. I indeed got a file called movie.avi, but when I tried to play it with mplayer it plays only the first seconds and without sound. Then it crashes (both in vlc and mplayer)<br>
<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">$ mplayer movie.avi </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8100 @ 2.10GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Stepping: 6)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Compiled with runtime CPU detection.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">mplayer: could not connect to socket</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">mplayer: No such file or directory</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Playing movie.avi.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">AVI file format detected.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">AVI: No audio stream found -> no sound.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">VIDEO: [WMV3] 640x360 24bpp 22.331 fps 447.6 kbps (54.6 kbyte/s)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">GNOME screensaver disabled</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">==========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmv9dmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">IMediaObject ERROR: 0x88e75e9 could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Failed to create DMO filter</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmv9dmod.dll.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Go to <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">VDecoder init failed :(</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmvdmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">IMediaObject ERROR: 0x88e75e9 could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Failed to create DMO filter</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmvdmod.dll.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Go to <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">VDecoder init failed :(</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[wmv3 @ 0x8972350]Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 0</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Selected video codec: [ffwmv3] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg M$ WMV3/WMV9)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">==========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Audio: no sound</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Starting playback...</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[wmv3 @ 0x8972350]warning: first frame is no keyframe</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">VDec: vo config request - 640 x 360 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">VO: [xv] 640x360 => 640x360 Planar YV12 </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">No bind found for key 'MOUSE_BTN2'. </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">V: 45.7 1021/1021 15% 0% 0.0% 0 0 </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">GNOME screensaver enabled</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Exiting... (End of file)</span><br></div><br>So, know I'm starting to run out of ideas. Does any body else know what the correct way is to download an mmsh stream in Ubuntu. Or, if you succeed in ripping the file, could you mail it to me/put it somewhere online?<br>
<br>Thanksin advance,<br>Jeroen Van Goey<br>