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Short, practical follow-up based on the replies already here: correctly flagged that the site serves RealMedia via RTSP, and ’s mplayer suggestion is a common way to grab those streams. When a dump tool “does nothing” on macOS it’s usually one of three things: you have the wrong binary (GUI vs CLI), the binary isn’t executable, or the player/tool can’t negotiate the RTSP transport the server expects. Also check ’s hint — RealPlayer may already save files locally (see next paragraph).

If you want a GUI route that often Just Works on macOS, use VLC’s Open Network Stream and its Convert/Save (or Stream/Save) feature: paste the network URL, choose Convert/Save, pick a profile and destination, then start. VLC’s streaming/convert UI is designed for exactly this use-case and avoids manual command-line fiddling. (archive.softwareheritage.org)

For a reliable command-line grab (keeps original audio/video, no re-encode) try ffmpeg and force TCP transport if UDP stalls; a minimal example (replace the rtsp URI and filename) is shown here:

ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://host:port/path" -c copy output.rm

Using -rtsp_transport tcp helps through NATs/firewalls, and -c copy preserves the original streams. If ffmpeg complains about the demuxer or codec, try different transport options or a more recent ffmpeg build — ffmpeg supports Real-RTSP/RDT and RealMedia containers. (ffmpeg.org)

Finally, if RealPlayer was used to view the clips it often stores saved downloads in a RealPlayer Downloads folder inside your Movies directory on macOS — check there before re-ripping. If none of the tools can connect, confirm the exact RTSP URI (the forum posts hint one exists), verify no auth is required, and consider asking the site admin for an authorised copy. (cache-download.real.com)

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They're not exactly hosted with Real Player. Rather you're using Real Player to download and play the videos locally, which means that there may be a copy of it on your local drive (probably somewhere on your C: drive though I don't know exactly where it would be).

You may need to contact the Web site's administrators to see if you can obtain a copy of the videos.

Bill

Welcome to the site :)

Here are the download links (I believe) in order of which you posted the links

rtsp://

rtsp://

rtsp://


Good luck!

Thanks for respondng,
I just tried those links but when i posted them into my browser it asked what program to open it with, then i chose realplayer and i couldnt download it. I also tried quicktime which didnt work. Im on a mac btw.

rtsp streams can't be directly downloaded through a Mac web browser. There are various programs that can do it, probably one of the best free ones that can do it is the Unix mplayer binary. Once installed, you can run the following at a command prompt to rip an rtsp stream:

$ mplayer -noframedrop -dumpstream [B][I]rtsp://url[/I][/B] -dumpfile [I][B]filename.rm[/B][/I]

You can download the mplayer binary here (note that it should be the Unix command line binary, not the OS X graphical version):
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mplayerosx/ffmpegXbinaries20060307.zip

Do you have real player?

yes

rtsp streams can't be directly downloaded through a Mac web browser. There are various programs that can do it, probably one of the best free ones that can do it is the Unix mplayer binary. Once installed, you can run the following at a command prompt to rip an rtsp stream:

$ mplayer -noframedrop -dumpstream [B][I]rtsp://url[/I][/B] -dumpfile [I][B]filename.rm[/B][/I]

You can download the mplayer binary here (note that it should be the Unix command line binary, not the OS X graphical version):
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mplayerosx/ffmpegXbinaries20060307.zip

I tried this and downloaded the program, only thing is it didnt work. I took screenshots to see if this is what its supposed to look like. Also do i copy that link that you gave exactly how it is into the command prompt? sorry im not exactly sure how to do this

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Open Terminal from /Applications/Utilities. Drag and drop the 'mplayer' file that you showed in your first screenshot from its location in the Finder onto the terminal window. The path of the mplayer binary should be written in the Terminal window now.

After a space, simply add the following to the line:

-noframedrop -dumpstream [B][i]rtsp://url[/i][/B] -dumpfile [B][I]filename.rm[/I][/B]

(replacing 'rtsp://url' with the url you want to rip, and with the filename you want when it gets downloaded). Hit return to execute the command.

I tried to drag and drop the video from the finder into the terminal but nothing happened. I don't know what to do

Drag and drop the mplayer file, not the video file.

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