HOWTO Rip Streams With MPlayer[1]

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Codecs
  • 2.1 Quicktime
  • 2.2 Real Media
    • 2.2.1 Default way
    • 2.2.2 Alternative way
  • 2.3 Live.com
• 3 Installation
• 4 Testing
  • 4.1 Working streams
    • 4.1.1 Real Media
    • 4.1.2 Quicktime
    • 4.1.3 Windows Media
  • 4.2 Problematic streams
• 5 Ripping
• 6 Playing
• 7 Useful links

Introduction

The aim of this howto is to rip (i. e. save on the hard disk) audio/video streams using MPlayer.

MPlayer can handle most of the streaming formats that are used on the Internet: Real Media, Windows Media and Quicktime are the most important ones.

Codecs