Gavin Ford wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:53:43PM +0000, alan c wrote: >> One of the rare occasions just happened - I wanted to capture a video >> clip from the bbc site. The previous technique I used does not now >> seem to work on this site, maybe they have changed their approach or >> something? >> >> The particular clip I want is entitled >> 'Rufus' review' >> and is not far down in the main article >> at >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7140443.stm >> >> I am using gutsy, with mplayer (plugin) in firefox. The clip plays ok >> in the browser, I just want to capture the clip. >> I have looked in the mozilla cache, video does not seem to be cached >> it seems, not there anyway (firefox 2.0.0.11) >> The url of the target clip seems to be >> rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title="BBC"&author="BBC"©right="(C) >> >> British Broadcasting Corporation" >> and using cl (in a test of playing it prior to using dumpstream etc >> etc) I obtain: >> >> ================================== >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mplayer -playlist >> rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title="BBC"&author="BBC"©right="(C) >> >> British Broadcasting Corporation" >> and at this stage it just does nothing more, apparently waiting (??) >> Any ideas please? Tia. > > > The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it, try it > in > single quotes like this: > > mplayer > 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title="BBC"&author="BBC"©right="(C)British > Broadcasting Corporation"'
Thanks, however that does not seem to work. Also a similar thing happens even when the title part is omitted entirely. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
