GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 160138
saving stream to disk
Last modified: 2007-11-25 14:31:16 UTC
saving streams to disk would be very handy. especially if the streams are rtsp:// or realtime. for example i'm using totem to watch TV over inet (http://adsl.tv) and i would like to save some programs for later watch oder important programs for storage. one application that can do this is kaffeine which is also xine based. thanks in advance.
The problem is that kaffeine doesn't know how to save the currently playing track, and only knows how to save a track that will be playing the future. You can already do that with the xine-lib backend by adding "#save:/tmp/myfile.bin" at the end of your URL. There are 2 options: - caching and near instant save time for small finite streams, this joins bug 157519 - saving currently playing non-finite streams (like a live show), by replacing the currently playing stream by one with "#save" at the end. GStreamer would probably just "tee" a filesink early in the pipeline. There's still the problem of big finite streams, and saving non-finite streams with xine-lib disrupting the playback.
Marking as a dupe of bug #350261. Although it's a much more recent bug, it's had more activity. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 350261 ***