On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:46:52PM -0500, rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote:
> Florin Iucha writes:
>  > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 01:28:55PM -0500, Clay Fandre wrote:
>  > > No, steaming media was designed in a way that you can't just download
>  > > it. (AFAIK) 
>  > 
>  > The closed source client does not offer the opportunity to save it. And
>  > there is no open source/free software implementations because of patent
>  > issues.
>  > 
>  > But there is nothing inherent in the technology that prevents the
>  > recording of a stream and playing it back later.
> 
> So by this you mean having some application that traps the contents of
> the real player window and somehow saves it as (for example) mpeg?
                  ^^^^^^
                  stream
> Anyone know of such an application?  vsound does (a more sophisticated
> version of) this for sound alone, but these MIT lectures are real
> video.

The BFI solution would be to record all the UDP traffic and replay it
later. It would be interesting to do as a hacking project.

> So disappointing --- it's really cool to see Gilbert Strang, but real
> player just keeps blowing chunks and wedging itself.  Bad client, no
> donut.

Bad client, no installation on my systems!

florin

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"If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is."

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