How to capture the Roadburn Festival webcast to disk

Tue May 23 05:58:37 EDT 2006

On 22/05/2006 17:35, Paul Mather wrote:
> That discovered, it was a simple matter to use mplayer to save the
> stream to disk:
> mplayer 'rtsp://streams.omroep.nl/vpro/28266607/surestream.rm?title=Hawkwind - Roadburn 2006&author=Hawkwind' -dumpstream -dumpfile Hawkwind_Roadburn_2006.rm

Embarassingly, I think I ended up closer on my Windows machine using 
mplayer! :P  But not quite there .... I ran that mplayer command:
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C:\Program Files\mplayer>mplayer 
'rtsp://streams.omroep.nl/vpro/28266607/surestream.rm?title=Hawkwind - 
Roadburn 2006&author=Hawkwind' -dumpstream -dumpfile 
Hawkwind_Roadburn_2006.rm
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But it didn't seem happy with the spaces in that URL:
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Playing 
'rtsp://streams.omroep.nl/vpro/28266607/surestream.rm?title=Hawkwind.
File not found: 
'streams.omroep.nl/vpro/28266607/surestream.rm?title=Hawkwind'
Failed to open 
'rtsp://streams.omroep.nl/vpro/28266607/surestream.rm?title=Hawkwind

Playing -.
Reading from stdin...
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... which wasn't very much use ;)

Are those spaces really there in the URL?  But then I tried just taking 
them out, but that didn't work either.  Any thoughts?  The darned 
streaming page still streams merrily enough!

Cheers,
Carl

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