Thanks for the information on Streaming Video Recorder. I tried it out and was able to get it to give me a bunch of pieces. The only problem is that it just grabs what is currently playing and so there's not any way to automate the process. So it's not any better than using ffmpeg to capture the stream by reading the m3u8 playlist file described in the big nbcolympics.com thread. But I like that program because I have been using GetFlv for a long time and thought it was the only game in town. It looks like this program will do similar things.
By the way, anyone reading this who just wants an easy way to capture videos from nbcolympics.com should see this thread:
http://stream-recorder.com/forum/cap...om-t13287.html
It's explained very well there and is easy to do. The only reason I'm trying to directly download each 5-second segment is that the connections will usually timeout before I can download an entire video. It usually takes a lot of tries to get the full video. Some of the longer ones, like the ones that are 7 hours long, I've been uanble to get.
I've tried to use wget and VLC command line and they don't work, but it's really easy to download these segments if you just paste the link in VLC player or a web browser. But this would take forever and wouldn't be practical. deadmund seemed to have figured out how to download individual packets this with VLC player from a script, but has still not come back to explain. It seems like there should be some way to do this, given that it's so easy to do with a GUI.