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NAME
mmsrip - MMS Ripper
SYNOPSIS
mmsrip [-q] [-t] [-k] [-dDELAY] [-gFILE] <[-oFILE] stream url> ...
DESCRIPTION
mmsrip is a client for the proprietary protocol MMS://.
It saves to a file the content being streamed.
OPTIONS
- -a, --about
- Show some information about mmsrip.
- -dDELAY, --delay=DELAY
- Save the stream during DELAY seconds and exit.
- -gFILE, --debugFILE
- Output debug info to specified file.
- -h, --help
- Show the help message.
- -k, --trick
- Attempt to trick recalcitrant servers by sending alternative local info (mmsrip will act as an old version of MediaPlayer).
- -oFILE, --output=FILE
- Output stream to specified file. This option should be repeated before every stream urls.
- -q, --quiet
- Enable quiet mode. Use twice in order to remove error messages as well.
- -t, --test
- Enable test mode. mmsrip will only check the stream availability.
- -v, --version
- Show version number.
ERROR CODES
- 0
- No error occured.
- 1
- mmsrip was unable to rip the stream (maybe the URL is incorrect).
- 2
- The stream was not ripped for unknown reasons. Please retry several times before giving up, you can write a script that loops until the rip succeeds:
until mmsrip mms://server.com/stream.asf; do sleep 1;
done
AUTHOR
Nicolas BENOIT <nbenoit@tuxfamily.org>
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This program is highly based on the work of SDP Multimedia (http://get.to/sdp) and Major MMS (http://www.geocities.com/majormms). They deserve all the credits for it.