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.