# Install msdl with Homebrew, winget

Downloader for various streaming protocols. Version 1.2.7-r2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with winget: winget install --id starkSV.msdl -e.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:msdl
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install msdl
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id starkSV.msdl -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: starkSV.msdl from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:msdl
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.2.7-r2
- **Source summary:** Downloader for various streaming protocols
- **Homepage:** <https://msdl.sourceforge.net/>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- msdl (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.2.7-r2
## Project history and usage

msdl, short for Media Stream DownLoader, is an open-source command-line downloader for media stream URLs and older streaming protocols.

### Project history

The official SourceForge-hosted site describes msdl as a downloader for mms:// and rtsp:// URLs, supporting MMS, MMSH, WMS-RTSP, Real-RTSP, FTP, and HTTP on Linux and BSD systems. The SourceForge file feed shows the public release series from 0.9 in 2007 through 1.2.7-r2 in 2010.

### Adoption history

msdl's packaging niche is legacy streaming-media retrieval: it covers protocols and server behavior that general HTTP download tools historically did not handle well.

### How it is used

The official manual documents output-file selection, resume, retry, bandwidth and stream-speed controls, RTSP ranges, metafile handling, protocol selection, proxy behavior through HTTP_PROXY, and basic HTTP or FTP authentication passed as command-line options.

### Why package nerds care

In package collections, msdl is less about modern video platforms and more about preserving access to old streaming protocols with a small C-era command-line tool.

### Timeline

- 2007: SourceForge file feed lists msdl 0.9 and 1.0 tarball releases.
- 2009: SourceForge file feed lists the 1.2.x series.
- 2010: SourceForge file feed lists msdl 1.2.7-r2.

### Sources

- <https://msdl.sourceforge.net/>
- <https://msdl.sourceforge.net/msdlhelp.html>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/msdl/rss?path=/msdl>
- source_facts.description
- source_facts.homepage


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- winget - starkSV.msdl: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: starkSV.msdl from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/msdl.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/msdl.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph