I primarily use wget to go out and grab data for viewing later.  I was
thinking the other day, "I would really
like to capture this streamed video so that I can look over it later."
But I have not been able to find
anything that works nearly as well as I would like.  wget's biggest
strength is that it goes out to the net
and reads any arbitrary stream of data.  This seems to me like a fairly
obvious next step for this program to
take on.  It already supports http https and ftp; I think that RTP/RTSP
would be a very valuble extension of
this multipurpose tool.  I do not know how wide a use it would have,
but I think that adding another protocol
for content fetching would be within the development path for this tool.

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?33837>

                 Summary: Would it be possible for wget to fetch data from an
RTP/RTSP stream?
                 Project: GNU Wget
            Submitted by: nok
            Submitted on: Sa 23 Jul 2011 15:07:07 CEST
                Category: Feature Request
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name:
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 1.12
        Operating System: GNU/Linux
         Reproducibility: None
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
              Regression: None
           Work Required: None
          Patch Included: No