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Originally Posted by Stream Recorder

What exactly is not perfect?

file size is wrong. file code is wrong.

Is there any quality loss or packet loss?

i dont know about packet loss. and i cant hear any quality loss. ( i havent listened to the audio file. it is DRM-protected )

hehe.. so i guess you're not (in the mood) up to the challenge: to do the testing (and eventually the proving) of the 1 given url (well, 2 url's).

ok, let's leave it then as it is *sigh* . WM-files downloaded with WMR can be played with WMP -- i guess that's the most important point, and the most important feature of WMR.

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This thread is about "the best software for ...", so my vote honestly doesnt go to WMR. Let's present and vote for some further tools of this kind:

+ SDP Downloader
a noteworthy tool (Japan China), which is extremely easy to use and FREE. doesnt cost you a penny.

+ WM Downloader
a professional commercial website (company) (China) dedicated to various media and streaming subjects, similar to this forum. when i did some hardcore testing of MMS/RTSP url's last year, WMD gave perfect(!) results compared with WMR, HiDownload, and NetXfer.

As a general "rule", feed a given arbitrary rtsp-url to 10 different stream downloaders. The rule is that 3 tools will give resultA, 3 tools will give a resultB, 3 tools will give a resultC, and 1 tool will give a resultD. Although it is the same server file (unchanged URL), the tools download DIFFERENT files. Once i realized this situation, last year, i began to question *all* 4 results and to investigate which one was 100% identical to the server file. Then i had to "get" the original server files "somehow", to possess a reference for binary file comparisons. And the story went on... etc.

Anyway, WMD (and WMR) are great mms/rtsp-downloaders, so we have mentioned them here. For perfectionists, WMD is a good choice to begin with. For people who want to have WM-files which just play without notable error messages, then *any* other tool is as good a choice: WMR, SDP, Replay Media Catcher 4, HiDownload , NetTransport (NetXFer), and maybe even FlashGet and FlashGot, Orbit Downloader, etc.