Linux-migration: various video thingies
After using windows for that long time, i got used to many small tools that help in every-day-tasks. One such task is downloading video files which are transported via stream-protocols such as mms and RTMP. Under windows i used to download them using HIDownload which is a commercial product. So, today i was looking for a way to download an mms-transported video and first found this advice, which uses mplayer to dump the stream to a file..
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile stream.wmv mms://…
The method is ok i guess, but while downloading mplayer doesn’t show how much of the file it already downloaded or how much remains. But then i found WgetPRO, which is a comand-line application equivalent to the notorious GNU Wget but with the ability to dump streamed media to a file. Wget on the other hand can only download via http or ftp.
So, now i download using WgetPRO using this simple syntax:
wpro mms://…
Fast conversion
Then, i often need to convert video files. Simply put, using ffmpeg can solve the task:
ffmpeg -i input.wmv -f flv output.flv
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