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mimms(1) General Commands Manual mimms(1)

NAME

mimms - mms (e.g. mms://) stream downloader

SYNOPSIS

mimms [options] <url> [filename]

DESCRIPTION

mimms is a program designed to allow you to download streams using the MMS protocol and save them to your computer, as opposed to watching them live. Similar functionality is available in full media player suites such as Xine, MPlayer, and VLC, but mimms is quick and easy to use and, for the time being, remains a useful program.

OPTIONS

show program's version number and exit
show this help message and exit
automatically overwrite an existing file
attempt to resume a partially downloaded stream
the desired bandwidth for stream selection in BANDWIDTH bytes/s
stop downloading after TIME minutes
print verbose debug messages to stderr
don't print progress messages to stdout

URLS

mimms supports only URLs that are supported by libmms, e.g. mms://, mmsh://, mmst://. Previous versions tried to do fancy things with http:// URLs and .asx files, but this version does not (yet?) support that.

AUTHOR

Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>

2008-04-06 mms stream downloader