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Hello

I wanted to saved a streaming video that use the MMS protocol into a file, so did the following:

1. Media > Streaming > Network: Type MMS
2. Click on Stream drop-down button and select Convert
3. Fill "Destination file"
4. Leave default settings H.264 + AAC
5. Click on Start

Is this the right way to save streaming video into a file?

Also, is there a way to play the streaming while saving it into a file? Alternatively, is there a way to speed up downloading, so that I don't have to leave VLC open for two hours?

Thank you.

Demux dump is a bit easier solution, since it doesn't require transcoding.
http://wiki.videolan.org/Demuxdump

For network files, VLC plays them at normal speed. So you might want to use some download tool in case you want to download them faster.

Thanks for the tip. I downloaded a few seconds to check, and the file seems OK when played in VLC, so I'll let it download the whole streaming and see how it goes.

VLC returns strange infos, though, about the file while the streaming is going on:

Stream 0: Audio, WMA2
Stream 1: Video WMV9 (WMV3) 384x216 Frame rate 25
Stream 2: WMV9 (WMV3) 640x360 Frame rate 25

Isn't it odd that there are two video streams within a file?

Once the file is saved, I'll need to extract a few minutes from within the show before uploading the segment to eg. YouTube. Is it OK to use AVIDemux? Should I use something else?

Thank you.

Isn't it odd that there are two video streams within a file?

No. It is perfectly normal that stream contains multiple video tracks.

ASFbin might be a better tool for ASF/WMV cutting.