How to download mms streaming videos in Ubuntu

Yesterday, a friend of mine came to me looking for a way to download a mms stream. Forget about the direct download I wasn't even able to stream it on the available players at the moment. But later after some searching I found out that there is an application for Ubuntu called mimms which can directly download the mms stream for you.

Mimms is available on all versions of Ubuntu. So, you can install it by either clicking on this link(in case of trouble refer this) or by running this command in the terminal.

[shredder12]$ sudo apt-get install mimms

Its a commad line tool. Using it is really easy.

[shredder12]$ mimms mms://example.com/video

as soon as you hit Enter it will start downloading the video for you.

There are several other useful options too for resuming partially downloaded files(-r), restricting bandwidth(-b), keeping a time restriction (-t). You might want to check its man page for more info.