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How to download MMS streaming video

MMS (Microsoft Media Server) is Microsoft's streaming protocol used to transfer data in Windows Media Services. Since this streaming data is meant to be played in client-side streaming application, it is not an obvious thing to do if we intend to download/save the streaming video to our local drive.

There are several ways to do it, but I just found downloading MMS streaming video using VLC media player is easy, straightforward and free:

1. Get the streaming-media URL
   This seems obvious. But just in case you have difficulties getting the MMS streaming URL, you can open the webpage where the streaming video is embedded using Firefox, and then click the menu Tools -> Page Info.You can get the embedded media URL as at the following picture:
   
   
2. Launch VLC Media player, and then click on File -> Open Network Stream...
3. Select the "HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS" option, and specify the URL.
4. On the advanced options section below, check "Stream/Save" and click "Settings..." button.
5. On the Outputs section at "Stream output" window, check "File" option, specify the file name, and check the "Dump raw input."
6. Click OK to close the "Stream output" window
7. Click OK one more time to start downloading the streaming video

I hope this is useful to those who want to save the streaming video and to watch it later.