Listening to and recording audio and video streams with MPlayer
Most streaming audio and video on the Internet is disseminated in proprietary formats such as RM, RAM, WMV, and ASF. Fortunately, the open source application MPlayer can play and even record streams in almost any format.
MPlayer supports RTSP, MMS, HTTP (progressive) and other streaming URLs, as well as direct playback from the URLs. Such URLs may look something like these:
MPlayer supports RTSP, MMS, HTTP (progressive) and other streaming URLs, as well as direct playback from the URLs.
Unfortunately, these URLs are not always provided in the open to be copied. It can take a bit of detective work to extract them from a meta file, such as .ram file for rtsp:// URLs.
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