Old freeware version of Net Transport no longer downloads RTSP .rm, .ra Real streams

[Rekrul]

I have NetTransport 1.87 installed, since that's the last freeware version. It USED to work fine. Now, whenever I try downloading an RTSP stream, an error message pops up in the log saying that there was an error writing to disk and that I should check my drive. It reconnects, downloads a little more and the same error comes up again.

No other program has reported any problems with my drive. Net Transport happily downloads MMS and HTTP URLs with no comlaints whatsoever. As soon as I feed it an RTSP URL, it starts complaining of disk errors.

I have tried multiple URLs, freeing more space on my drive so it's writing to a different area, uninstalling/reinstalling, but nothing makes a difference. Net Transport 1.87 will no longer download RTSP streams without continuously complaining of drive errors. I even tried downgrading to a lower version, but they all did the same thing.

I installed one of the newer versions, now called NetXFer and that worked fine. Then the trial period ran out and it stopped working.

I wrote to the author, but he never answered.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?