I'm just looking for a short answer to serve as a sanity check and also to push me in the right direction. I've just spent the last several hours trying to capture a video stream. Ultimately I'd like to make it into an MPEG-2 so that I can put it on a regularly playable DVD. It's a medical file and many people have been unable to view it.
I followed the URL's and ended up with an RTSP:// extension. The file requires Quicktime to be installed, so that must be the video format. I tried a half dozen "capture" programs but was most impressed with VLC. I've made the most progress using this program. I can easily view the streaming video using VLC. Using the Wizard I can even tell it to capture to a file and it does capture a file. However, regardless of leaving it alone or transcode options or the encapsulation options I can not get a viewable capture. The audio plays but no video, even with the VNC client. GSPOT detects the encapsulation and audio properly but nothing on the video codec.
The implication is that I can't capture Quicktime / RTSP streaming video. Has anyone succeeded with this? For starters I'd be happy to save and then replay with VNC. I don't see a lot in the way of additional codec's or modules that need to be added. Perhaps there's a combination of output transcoding and/or encapsulation that would work.
Thank you for any suggestions.