---
name: "mmsrip"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mmsrip"
version: "0.7.0-8"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mmsrip"
---

# mmsrip(1)

MMS Ripper

## NAME

mmsrip - MMS Ripper

## SYNOPSIS

**mmsrip** \[-q\] \[-t\] \[-k\] \[-d*DELAY*\] \[-g*FILE*\] \<\[-o*FILE*\] 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**.

- **-d***DELAY*, **--delay**=*DELAY*

  Save the stream during *DELAY* seconds and exit.

- **-g***FILE*, **--debug***FILE*

  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).

- **-o***FILE*, **--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.