On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:52:50PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > Stroller <stroller <at> stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > > > > 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) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > May thanks for your reply, Carl. Is there any chance I could trouble > > you for some further hints, please? > > > > When I google "remux rtsp mplayer" this page > ^^^^^^^ > > <http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-quicktime-7.html > > > is a top hit, with the illustrative commands: > > > > mplayer narnia.avi -dumpaudio -dumpfile narnia.aac > > mplayer narnia.avi -dumpvideo -dumpfile narnia.h264 > ^^^^^^^ > > To repeat myself: You can only use mplayer to "play" rtsp streams, downloading > and remuxing will not work. (Allow me to add that the result of the remux might > not make you happy: Both mencoder and ffmpeg will probably loose packets and > some frames will be damaged.) While it doesn't create a strictly correct file, downloading works with e.g. mencoder rtsp://a2047.v1411b.c1411.g.vq.akamaistream.net/5/2047/1411/2_h264_650/1a1a1ae454c430950065de4cbb2f94c226950c7ae655b61a48a91475e243acda3dac194879adde0f/1001908r5ft6dswz_1_650.mov -noskip -mc 0 -oac copy -ovc copy -fafmttag 0xA106 -o test.avi
