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
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Show some information about mmsrip.
- -dDELAY, --delay=DELAY
-
Save the stream during DELAY seconds and exit.
- -gFILE, --debugFILE
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Output debug info to specified file.
- -h, --help
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Show the help message.
- -k, --trick
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Attempt to trick recalcitrant servers by sending alternative local info (mmsrip will act as an old version of MediaPlayer).
- -oFILE, --output=FILE
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Output stream to specified file. This option should be repeated before every stream urls.
- -q, --quiet
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Enable quiet mode. Use twice in order to remove error messages as well.
- -t, --test
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Enable test mode. mmsrip will only check the stream availability.
- -v, --version
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Show version number.
ERROR CODES
- 0
-
No error occured.
- 1
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mmsrip was unable to rip the stream (maybe the URL is incorrect).
- 2
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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 <[email protected]>
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.