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How to record streaming WMV/ASF/MMS-links using VLC Media Player
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Baldrick
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Post Posted: Dec 18, 2006 10:00 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
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Guide
If you have a mms-link just copy it or open the video link your webbrowser and right click in the windows media window and select Properties and copy the location URL.


Start VLC
Select File->Open Network Stream
Select HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS and paste the URL/Link
Select Stream/Save under Advanced Options and click on Settings
Select Outputs and Play locally and File
Select ASF as Encapsulationd Method
OK and VLC should start play and also capture the video to the file.


You can now play the ASF file with WMP or convert it to other formats using for example SUPER, VirtualdubMPEG2 or Windows Movie Maker.

Last edited by Baldrick on Dec 18, 2006 14:42, edited 1 time in total
Soopafresh
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Post Posted: Dec 18, 2006 10:22 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Nice one, Baldrick smile.gif

Alex_ander
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Post Posted: Dec 18, 2006 14:33 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
In most cases you can download the actual streamed RM or ASF file using NetTransport by loading either the initial link file or direct link gotten from it, with multiple connections to the host and resuming paused downloads. If the webcast is live, you can also record it to file (real-time in this case).
P.S. Sorry, slightly out of topic.

Baldrick
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Post Posted: Dec 18, 2006 14:43 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
No, Net Transport...clickable link...smile.gif....or WM Recorder or the free SDP Multimedia....but I still like VLC anyway.

rakf1
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Post Posted: Dec 18, 2006 16:16 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Is there a way to start stream capture when needed only? What I mean is, say I'm watching a streaming video using WMP and then I want to capture only section of the stream while watching and stop capture whenever I want.... looks like this method will capture the whole stream and then I have to edit.....

method
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Post Posted: Dec 18, 2006 21:02 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Thanks for this nice tutorial. I used the netTransport to record .asf file and changed the created file to .asf and now i do not know how to split it ? could any one tell me how to split that .asf file.thanks

mgh
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Post Posted: Dec 24, 2006 09:04 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Thanks a ton
For me method works with Firefox 2.0.0.1, not with my IE 6

mgh
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Post Posted: Dec 26, 2006 22:04 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
method wrote:
Thanks for this nice tutorial. I used the netTransport to record .asf file and changed the created file to .asf and now i do not know how to split it ? could any one tell me how to split that .asf file.thanks

Try Cut Assistant

bigstusexy
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Post Posted: Jan 02, 2007 09:44 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Does VLC support NTLM I think it is? There are sometimes where when I use SDP it stops and It think its because of that. I don't remember the right acronym but its listed as non supported by SDP.

albabe
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Post Posted: Jan 10, 2007 20:14 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Hi:

Does anyone have this same instructions for the newest VLC 0.8.6a for Mac OS X 10.4.8?

... and can you save a streaming .rn?

foochuck
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Post Posted: Mar 22, 2007 15:35 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
I followed your instructions to capture this clip:

http://87.248.216.222/a304/o2-orange/msftmsne/Prod/wmv/v9/Video/0 ... WMExt=.asf

When I tried to open the ASF file in Windows Media Player it says:

Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.

Any suggestions?
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Schmendrick
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Post Posted: Mar 23, 2007 03:24 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
The clip uses Windows Media Video 9 and Windows Media Audio 9.1 as codecs. I am using Windows Media Player 11 and do not have any problems to play the file insert its URL into "Open URL". I also have successfully downloaded the wmv-file replacing "http" by mms" in the files URL using SDP Multimedia as suggested by Baldrick as an alternative to VLC as I somehow was not able to download the file using vlc.

Schmendrick




foochuck
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Post Posted: Apr 13, 2007 10:56 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Schmendrick wrote:
The clip uses Windows Media Video 9 and Windows Media Audio 9.1 as codecs. I am using Windows Media Player 11 and do not have any problems to play the file insert its URL into "Open URL". I also have successfully downloaded the wmv-file replacing "http" by mms" in the files URL using SDP Multimedia as suggested by Baldrick as an alternative to VLC as I somehow was not able to download the file using vlc.

Schmendrick




How would I use SDP to capture this URL:

http://www.hbo.com/av/sopranos/season6/sopranos_ep79_tea_wm_hi.wvx

?
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Schmendrick
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Post Posted: Apr 14, 2007 14:56 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
[quote]How would I use SDP to capture this URL:

http://www.hbo.com/av/sopranos/season6/sopranos_ep79_tea_wm_hi.wvx

?[/quote]

@foochuck
If you right-click on this URL and choose "Save Target As..." you save this "wsx"-file
which actually is an "asx-file version 3.0". If you open this locally saved file using
Wordpad you will find the following URL for the wmv-video-file itself which then
you can download.

http://wms.stream.aol.com/turner/gl/hbo/sopranos/season6/sopranos ... wm_384.wmv

Have fun

Schmendrick

foochuck
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Post Posted: Jun 07, 2007 19:08 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Schmendrick,

I'm trying to download this file:

http://wms.stream.aol.com/turner/gl/hbo/sopranos/season6/sopranos ... wm_384.wmv using SDP.

It get's to 99% and then it stops. Do you have any suggestions?
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Jeezy42
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Post Posted: Aug 04, 2007 13:15 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Hi

I tried this method which the gent at the top suggested but i'm only geting audio after i've finished recording the stream

Anyone help would be much greatly apreicated wink.gif

mariano_76ers
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Post Posted: May 08, 2008 13:25 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Jeezy42 wrote:
Hi

I tried this method which the gent at the top suggested but i'm only geting audio after i've finished recording the stream

Anyone help would be much greatly apreicated :wink:


Some times the same thing happens tome!!!

please

can anyone help me??

THanks

AndrewM
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Post Posted: May 30, 2008 11:06 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Thanks Baldrick for the great guidance, including the highlighted screen captures.
- What does "Dump Raw Input" next to "file" do?
- In the "Encapsulation Method" (e.g. file-type), what would be the best to save in? What are the advantages/disadvantages? There's many to choose from - MPEG TS, MPEG PS, MPEG 1, Ogg, ASF, MP4, MOV, WAV, Raw. I assume that WAV would be sound only w/o video.
- What about Transcoding Options here? It would be cool if subtitles could also be recorded.
- I'm unfamiliar with these other video conversion software -- SUPER, VirtualdubMPEG2 & Windows Movie Maker. Which do you recommend? Are any Freeware? What about video dubbing software? I'm currently recording with VideoLAN VLC and would like to cut out the first 5 minutes or so. It's too bad that VideoLAN VLC can't do it itself -- it seems to be the best video playing software out there and can do so many other things well.

BTW, where'd you get that great Avatar? I know a guy who makes a face like that, looks almost exactly like him, glasses and all!

Sien
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Post Posted: Jun 11, 2008 21:39 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
I'm trying to use this method to download/save this file & getting errors

http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/080604-ee380-300.asx

Error: Unable to open 'ASF http://lang.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/080604/080604-ee380-300.wmv'

It's listed in WMP's properties as:

*Windows Media Audio 9.1
20 kbps, 22 kHz, mono (A/V) 1-pass CBR

*Windows Media Video 9

*Under "Media Usage Rights" in the WMP properties it says "This file is not protected."

I saved it & opened it with notepad and tried http://lang.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/080604/080604-ee380-300.wmv
via notepad:
Code:
ASF http://lang.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/080604/080604-ee380-300.wmv


Error: Unable to open 'mms://lang.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/080604/080604-ee380-300.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf'

then i saved the http://lang.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/080604/080604-ee380-300.wmv & looked at it in notepad:

so i tried http://lang.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/080604/080604-ee380-300.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf
Code:
[Reference]
Ref1=http://lang.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/080604/080604-ee380-300.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf
Ref2=http://192.168.10.101:80/courses/ee380/080604/080604-ee380-300.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf


& got Error: Unable to open 'mms://lang.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/080604/080604-ee380-300.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf'
none of them seem to work.

Does anybody know the proper method to save this file?

hocyber
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Post Posted: Aug 01, 2008 02:38 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
I also encounter this problem. However, I found a method to get the asf file correctly.

Method : you can use copy and paste function on the asf file during encoding the streaming video for the last five seconds. You will get the playable asf file as a copy of the orginal file. smile.gif

paranoid
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Post Posted: Oct 08, 2008 10:34 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Is there an updated version of this guide for the new menus in VLC 0.9.4?

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Post Posted: Oct 08, 2008 13:45 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
AndrewM wrote:
BTW, where'd you get that great Avatar? I know a guy who makes a face like that, looks almost exactly like him, glasses and all!
Blackadder, an English TV sitcom smile.gif : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder

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