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                                imfetch (Intelligent Media Fetch) is a download client for Real Media streams. In
                                other words, it lets you download a stream that could be viewed with RealPlayer
                                and save it to disk. This is already possible with programmes such as 
                                mplayer. However,
                                if you just want to download these streams, and don't need the other features of
                                mplayer, then you may find imfetch easier to install and use.

                                It is planned, in the future, to develop imfetch into a client for other types of
                                media streams as well as add the ability to transcode the stream to other media
                                formats. This is why the name imfetch was chosen, rather then rtspfetch or something
                                similar.

                                Note: imfetch does not, as yet, support ".ram" files. If you want to download a Real
                                Media stream that appears on a web site to be in a file named "something.ram", download
                                this first with wget and open
                                it in a text editor. Use the URL contained in the file that looks like "rtsp://.../".