Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again

2008-01-14 Thread Rob Beard
alan c wrote: > > just remembered another thing - I also found a comment in the forums > that removal of totem-mozilla helped someone, so I saw it was > installed here and un installed it too. It did not seem to do anything > detrimental in removing it, but maybe it helped also! You may find

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again

2008-01-14 Thread alan c
alan c wrote: > Gavin Ford wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:27:41PM +, alan c wrote: >>> > The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it, >>> > try it in >>> > single quotes like this: >>> > >>> > mplayer >>> > 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again

2008-01-14 Thread alan c
Gavin Ford wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:27:41PM +, alan c wrote: >> > The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it, try >> > it in >> > single quotes like this: >> > >> > mplayer >> > 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again

2008-01-14 Thread Gavin Ford
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:10:08AM +, C L Chatfield wrote: > If you use Xvidcap with a good graphics card, > would it work? > > I cant capture totem images with it but can record screenshots. You don't need to with mplayer, you can add the -dumpstream option and it will dump the content to a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again

2008-01-13 Thread C L Chatfield
If you use Xvidcap with a good graphics card, would it work? I cant capture totem images with it but can record screenshots. I have seen video captures from games on linux, how is that done? On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 23:46 +, Gavin Ford wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:27:41PM +, alan c wr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again

2008-01-13 Thread C L Chatfield
I think these things are to stop indepth news analysis. For example the police operation Ore was stopped when they turned up at Downing Street. The story was on bbc site but I can't find it anymore. If you can't save the evidence then you can't make a case. On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 23:27 +, ala

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again

2008-01-13 Thread Gavin Ford
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:27:41PM +, alan c wrote: > > The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it, try > > it in > > single quotes like this: > > > > mplayer > > 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title=

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again

2008-01-13 Thread alan c
Gavin Ford wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:53:43PM +, alan c wrote: >> One of the rare occasions just happened - I wanted to capture a video >> clip from the bbc site. The previous technique I used does not now >> seem to work on this site, maybe they have changed their approach or >> so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again

2008-01-13 Thread Gavin Ford
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:53:43PM +, alan c wrote: > One of the rare occasions just happened - I wanted to capture a video > clip from the bbc site. The previous technique I used does not now > seem to work on this site, maybe they have changed their approach or > something? > > The partic

[ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again

2008-01-13 Thread alan c
One of the rare occasions just happened - I wanted to capture a video clip from the bbc site. The previous technique I used does not now seem to work on this site, maybe they have changed their approach or something? The particular clip I want is entitled 'Rufus' review' and is not far down in