16 Oct
2002
16 Oct
'02
5:16 p.m.
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
Well I got close by scrounging around in the source
for a few of the
pages but no success yet. It's a pity that the format causes problems
for Linux apps. It seems to be used in a lot of good sites that I have
found over these past couple of days.
I would bet that the problem isn't ASF itself nor downloading from a CFM page,
but that the URL you have sends you an .asx file, which contains pointers to
the actual stream URL(s). On top of that, the .asx file may link to mms:
protocol URL's, which are some Microsoft streaming protocol that some players
might deal with (I thought I heard mplayer did, but I haven't tried it) but
wget or mozilla will not.
If the stream you're trying to download is archived (that is, not a live
stream that can't be replayed) try this:
wget -O test.asx http://servername/launch.cfm?mixid=5014
Look in that file and see if there are any HTTP links to .asf files. If there
are, send the link to your favorite streaming-capable media player program or
wget it if you want to have a local copy of the whole set. If there are
only mms links, you'll need to use something capable of streaming them, or an
ASF downloader program like asfrecorder (which I myself use; the syntax is
asfrecorder file.asx and it figures out which stream is best and downloads it
to your hard disk.)
This may work to an extent with live broadcasts, but what ends up in the asf
file on your hard disk is anyone's guess. I've done it that way a couple
times and it usually ends up being pretty good until the first serious packet
droppage.
Rob