Capture or record a real audio/video (rtsp) stream in Linux

Posted on August 7, 2010 Updated on October 5, 2010

You want to save (capture) a RealAudio or RealVideo stream to a file for later viewing or listening. These are the keyword may works Real, RealAudio, RealVideo, capture, record, streaming, stream, rip, ripping, mplayer, Linux.

mplayer -noframedrop -dumpfile out.rm -dumpstream rtsp://url/to/file.rm

When the download is done you can watch or listen to out.rm with a media player, like realplay or mplayer.