Perhaps I am fundamentally misunderstanding my formats and protocols, but I was surprised to find that I couldn't easily automate the download of streaming media via LWP.

I have a fairly large set (a couple of hundred) of streaming video/audio clips that I wanted to download regularly for a client across an intranet as a backup procedure, and I just can't seem to make it work. The server is an mms server, which is a micro$oft product, and somehow IE knows well enough to hand it off to Media-Player, so perhaps I could emulate that and just save the streamed output?

It was surprisingly hard to find a web-based MMS server to show a script on, but here is one in Japan. It might be a bit slow, given the distance but the principle should be the same. The file plays okay in media-player, but I can't grab it with LWP using this code:

use LWP::UserAgent;
my $agent = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $response = $agent->get('mms://wms01.aii.co.jp/hotshot/yoshioka.wmv
+');
open(OUT, '>test1.wmv');
binmode OUT;
print OUT $$response{content};

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Any ideas, advice, or suggestions much appreciated. Especially if I'm under some fundamental misconception that it *is* possible to grab streaming media files via PERL! :) I should mention: it fails with both LWP::UserAgent and LWP::Simple, and it seems to just not return any content. I suppose it isn't returning an HTTP-header, which must be the start of my problems....

Tats

In reply to Download Streaming Media? by Itatsumaki

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