Multimedia :: Another Flash 9 post/flash alternatives, etc.

mplayer can rip streams with the -dumpstream and -dumpfile oprions:

Code Sample

$ mplayer -dumpstream "<url>" -dumpfile <file>

Google for info.

(fyi mencoder and ffmpeg are contained within mplayer-1.0pre8cvs.uci with lame/ogg-vorbis etc support and can do all sorts of conversions).

original here.