[Foundation-l] Direct url's posted (Re: Wikimania 2008; online video recordings)

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Walter Vermeir <walter at wikipedia.be> wrote:
> Yes VLC can play it. At least most of them. There was a video where the
> video did not worked, only the audio. But with Mplayer that one worked fine.
>
> I am currently attempting to download the videos by playing the video in
> VLC and dumping the video to a local file. If that works I will upload
> them. I have attempted it before but near the end it did get stuck.

Mplayer can do this too, without decoding the video.. but it's not
reliable: glitches during the transmission end up in the saved file.