On 06/29/2010 09:08 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 29/06/10 11:31, Frank Cox wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:21 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> >>> How can I save a short clip to a file, preferably using software >>> provided with F-13? >>> >> >> >> wget? >> > > > >> Ok, that looks like it might work. I did: >> >> [bobg@box9 ~]$ wget http://cam2/mjpg/video.mjpg --user=admin >> --password=1234 >> > >> --2010-06-29 11:42:26-- http://cam2/mjpg/video.mjpg >> Resolving cam2... 192.168.1.52 >> Connecting to cam2|192.168.1.52|:80... connected. >> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized >> Connecting to cam2|192.168.1.52|:80... connected. >> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK >> Length: unspecified [multipart/x-mixed-replace] >> Saving to: “video.mjpg” >> >> [<=> ] 271,324 12.9K/s ^C >> >> And stopped it with "CTRL C" but Firefox will not display the >> resulting "video.mjpg" file. Perhaps the ctrl-c is not the right >> way to end it? It protests that it's a .bin file and offers to >> save it. >> >> I would try VLC but yum says it's not available ... vlc is available from rpmfusion via yum. Try "yum list vlc*": [root@bigdog ~]# yum list vlc* Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit rpmfusion-free-updates | 2.8 kB 00:00 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 2.8 kB 00:00 updates/metalink | 13 kB 00:00 updates | 4.5 kB 00:00 Installed Packages vlc.x86_64 1.0.6-1.fc13 @rpmfusion-free vlc-core.x86_64 1.0.6-1.fc13 @rpmfusion-free The URL you used is typical of a camera that gives you an MPEG via web access (D-Link cameras use this a lot). There's a web server built into the camera that gives you that, but there's usually a method to access the live stream as well. Look at the camera's docs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines