[SLUG] Media Players

[Gavin Baker]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 08:41 +0000, Fintan Gaughan wrote:
> 
> my sons like boogie beebies and the songs come on TV at certain times
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/boogiebeebies/index.shtml
> to their delight we can see them at any time on BBC website
> trouble is net congestion at certain times of day
> as you will know 2 year old and 1 year old very impatient when songs start
> buffering i use real media 
> tried my best to down load it but i end up downloading links
> surely there is another  way

mplayer -dumpstream <url>

(assuming your mplayer has real support)

Regards,
Gav