how to save streaming real media

[Andy]

Santanu Chatterjee wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
> 
> Is there any way to save the streaming web casts (say, the ones
> from UC Berkeley) on my Ubuntu PC? I am behind an http proxy.
> I tried saving them with mplayer, but have been unsuccessful
> so far.

That's odd MPlayer normally works.
Remember that sometimes the RealMedia file on the web is actually a
playlist so try -playlist file.rm
Also don't forget -dumpstream -dumpfile "myfile"

You may need to tell MPlayer to use the HTTP proxy, make sure the
environmental variable http_proxy is set correctly.

I have had problems streaming RealMedia using the version of MPlayer
shipped with 6.06LTS, installing the latest version (and applying the
security patches!) from the MPlayer website fixed it.

Are you getting any particular error message when streaming using
MPlayer? Have you tried verbose mode?

Have you go the URL for the file you are trying to stream?

Thanks

Andy