How to Download mms:// (MultiMedia Stream) Video?

If you are not able to download the mms://a-web-site/stream_video.wmv
and only able to play via streaming. But you might have slow speed,

Then, you can use mencoder to download above file.

$ mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o out_video_file.wmv mms://a-web-site/stream_video.wmv

PS. If you want to view via streaming, you can use mplayer:

$ mplayer mms://a-web-site/stream_video.wmv