Help downloading a couple of stubborn streams

[brantlymedders]

Greetings to all,

I'm having trouble downloading two stubborn RTSP streams.

The URLs for the videos are as follows:

http://chnmstreaming.gmu.edu/historicalthinking/SocialSecurity-stream.mp4

and

http://chnmstreaming.gmu.edu/historicalthinking/Scopes_Stream.mov

From these http URLs, I was able to extract the following RTSP urls:

rtsp://129.174.10.17:80/historicalthinking/SocialSecurity-stream.mp4 

and

rtsp://129.174.10.17:80/historicalthinking/Scopes_Stream.mov

Now, I'm having difficulty getting these things to play smoothly (playback is very jerky in a windows VM, and pretty much non-existant in my native Ubuntu environment), and all attempts at downloading via VLC, mplayer, or openRTSP have failed.

Can anyone help me out with this? I'd really like to have these videos as a classroom resource.

[Anywho]

Originally Posted by brantlymedders

Greetings to all,

I'm having trouble downloading two stubborn RTSP streams.

The URLs for the videos are as follows:

http://chnmstreaming.gmu.edu/historicalthinking/SocialSecurity-stream.mp4

and

http://chnmstreaming.gmu.edu/historicalthinking/Scopes_Stream.mov

From these http URLs, I was able to extract the following RTSP urls:

rtsp://129.174.10.17:80/historicalthinking/SocialSecurity-stream.mp4 

and

rtsp://129.174.10.17:80/historicalthinking/Scopes_Stream.mov

Now, I'm having difficulty getting these things to play smoothly (playback is very jerky in a windows VM, and pretty much non-existant in my native Ubuntu environment), and all attempts at downloading via VLC, mplayer, or openRTSP have failed.

Can anyone help me out with this? I'd really like to have these videos as a classroom resource.

Seems the latest version of FFMPEG is able to download them. The video in the first one appears to be full of errors in the coding (ffmpeg really complains about it) - which is probably why you're getting odd results in the Windows VM. I don't know about the MOV because I don't have any that plays MOV's here...

The command lines I used (in Win 7, Pro):

ffmpeg -i rtsp://129.174.10.17:80/historicalthinking/SocialSecurity-stream.mp4 test.mp4

ffmpeg -i rtsp://129.174.10.17:80/historicalthinking/Scopes_Stream.mov -acodec copy -vcodec copy test.mov

Best of luck

[edit: The MOV looks like it may be just audio anyway, so VLC will play either file]

[brantlymedders]

Thanks so much for your help.

I see what you're saying about the videos being full of errors, etc.

I'm going to see if I can get in touch with someone at George-Mason and perhaps get these clips looked at.