Hello Joep!
If the VLC won't work for you, you can always take mplayer:
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile you_filename URL
If it's a playlist wrapper (asx, m3u or ram) use:
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile your_filename -playlist URL
Hope that helps.
Kind regards
Julien
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