[MPlayer-users] How to save RealMedia streams?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:26:37AM +0000, Joao Fraga wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> >learn to read the manpage :)  :
> 
> Learn to read the message you are replying to:
>   «On the other hand, the man page describes this option.»
> ;-)
> 
> Also, do you know how to solve the problem of MPlayer not being able to 
> stream RealMedia URLs that start with "rtsp://"?
> 
> Since now part of RealPlayer is open-source, shouldn't it be possible to 
> find out how to play these type of streams?

The "open-source" thing was all a publicity stunt for Real. What do
you expect with a company that's based on proprietary lockouts and
spyware? The code they released is absolutely 100% useless.

Anyway, Real's RTSP uses some sort of cryptographic challenge-response
deal to prevent 'unauthorized' players from connecting to their
servers. So in order to make it work someone needs to reverse engineer
their client and get the necessary keys or else find a weakness in the
algorithm used.

Rich