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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

       --version
              show program's version number and exit

       -h, --help
              show this help message and exit

       -c, --clobber
              automatically overwrite an existing file

       -r, --resume
              attempt to resume a partially downloaded stream

       -b BANDWIDTH, --bandwidth=BANDWIDTH
              the desired bandwidth for stream selection in BANDWIDTH bytes/s

       -t TIME, --time=TIME
              stop downloading after TIME minutes

       -v, --verbose
              print verbose debug messages to stderr

       -q, --quiet
              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>

mms stream downloader             2008-04-06                          mimms(1)

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