#!/usr/bin/python

import subprocess,sys,string

# Grab the videos using mencoder. Do it one at a time using 'call' instead of 'popen'
def strip(url):
    newurl = "mms"+url[url.find(":"):]
    print newurl
    vidname = url[url.rfind("/")+1:url.rfind("?")]
    print "mencoder %s -ovc copy -oac copy -o %s.avi" % (newurl,vidname)
    p1 = subprocess.call(["mencoder", newurl, "-ovc","copy","-oac","copy","-o", ("%s.avi" % (vidname,))])

# Download links that are stored in a file, one link per line
def downloadClass(filename):
    f = open(filename, 'r')
    for url in f:
        url = string.rstrip(url, '\n')
        strip(url)


downloadClass('filenamehere')