Turns out we had an MMS stream that needed to be saved again, I used to have some tool that did that but it wasn’t all that great and in the meanwhile my PC got reinstalled so I went to look for a solution again. Streamripper doesn’t do MMS (or so it seems), so I landed at Swiss Army Knife VideoLAN .
What to do:
- Save your ASF file
- Open it up in an editor and copy/paste the mms:// url
- Open up your commandline (if vlc(.exe) isn’t in your path, change to your VLC directory or type the full path)
- vlc -vvv mms://foo –sout file/avi:bar.avi (replace foo by your mms url and bar.avi by your desired output file)
Could it be any easier?
Probably, but still. 
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August 8th, 2007 at 12:56
Even shorter: mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile stream.wmv -playlist http://example.org/stream.asf
August 8th, 2007 at 17:05
I suspected mplayer could come into the picture, and I guess there may be a Windows port floating somewhere too.
(… which are both Microsoft formats, of course, but wmv is just that little more "eww"-y, isn’t it?)
In my defense, you’re outputting in wmv and I’m outputting in avi!
I was wondering if vlc also supported the asf playlist, though I didn’t test it.
August 15th, 2007 at 23:34
tom tom tom :-p
you just end up with a file that has an avi extention. that’s all. it still is a wmv file. As far as i know vlc only supports mpeg & asf as a container (you should transcode, –sout=#transocode param, it to mpg and than to avi with avidemux (linux) or virtualdub (windows)
Could it be any easier? Probably
You should run a "file bar.avi" or "mplayer bar.avi" and check the used codec
August 15th, 2007 at 23:42
Okay, so that’s just gay
I’ll just call them .wmv instead then :>
Latter 2 commands are somewhat harder as this was done for a Windows platform.
Could it be any easier? Probably -> just download mmsdownloader or whatever tool
I just wanted to see what I already had installed
August 19th, 2007 at 09:03
Zou er niet een simpel one-click programmatje bestaan zoals soundtap, maar dan voor video?