Is there a way to download streaming WMV files?

[magomago]

...and buffering every 4 seconds really kind of ruins it. Is there a way at all, or a program that allows it, or should I search for an MPG somewhere or a RM file somwhere/?

 

[Nohr]

CoCSoft Stream Down will do it but it's not free. There may be a free solution that I'm not aware of.

 

[oog]

look for asf2mkv on sourceforge. i think it's part of the guliverkli project.

edit: you can also get an mkv splitter as part of guliverkli that will allow you to play mkv files. alternately, you can look for virtualdubmod and use it to convert the mkv file into an avi file.

 

[Drakkon]

i use net transport
http://www.xi-soft.com/default.htm

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
i use net transport
http://www.xi-soft.com/default.htm

Thanks!!!


and man it took a while. The file was 5 megabytes, but it took over 30 minutes to download the thing...

you'd thin that people would make sure enough bandwith is avalible if they will allow something to be only streamed

 

[Relayer]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
i use net transport
http://www.xi-soft.com/default.htm

hmmm, site is down?

 

[DoggXXL]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
i use net transport
http://www.xi-soft.com/default.htm

Thanks, gonna try this out. Downloading right now.... still slow.

 

[xtknight]

The Ethereal packet sniffer and getasfstream works good for me. RTSP and MMS supported. You do know you need a packet sniffer to get the URL the RTSP PLAY command issues, right? If you need further help with the packet sniffer or getting the URL, let me know. Sometimes right clicking the windows media player embedded object, selecting properties, and getting the URL from there works. If it's just one or two media files you need I'd be happy to get the RTSP URL for you, providing they even use RTSP.