Have you ever wondered how to watch and record on your computer mms and rtsp streams?

In windows there is only StreamBox VCR, old app not more updated due to license issues.

In linux mplayer simply does this job!

1) First make sure you have win32codecs (or win64codecs if you have Linux AMD64) installed, if not install them via apt-get
sudo apt-get install win32codecs

2) check if you can actually see the stream via
mplayer url

3) If you still can’t view your video, try to use wget and cat commands. For example:
wget “http://www.somesite.com/somename.rm”
cat “somename.rm”

Tip: If you can choose, always prefer the rtsp://, http:// or mms:// protocols over the pnm://, as the latter is not well supported by MPlayer yet. If there is only a pnm:// link provided, you can also try replacing the pnm:// at the beginning of the link with rtsp://

4) rip it:
mplayer -dumpstream “<url>” -dumpfile <file>
or mplayer -playlist “<url>” -dumpstream -dumpfile <file>

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You can also use mimms

apt-get install mimms

once you’ve installed it it’s as simple as:

mimms mms://server.to.download.from/path/file.wma

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source: http://geocities.com/majormms/
source: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_Streams_With_MPlayer