[GRLUG] saving streaming media

[Michael Mol]

On 4/2/07, Topher <topher at wcsg.org> wrote:
> > Make sure you have mplayer installed, with the Real codecs, and grab the
> > Firefox MediaPlayerConnectivity plugin.
> >
> > Navigate to a page with an embedded player.  The MPC icon should appear.
> > Click on that, and MPC will launch mplayer.
> >
> > Hop over to a terminal, and use ps to find the exact command-line
> > arguments passed to mplayer to read the stream.  Copy those arguments.
> >
> > On another terminal, type:
> >
> > mplayer -ao pcm:file=output.wav (paste your arguments here.)
> >
> > That will save the audio stream as a PCM WAV file.  Encode to the audio
> > format of your choice.
>
> They use SMIL to string together  a bunch of "chapters"  Do you know if
> mplayer will handle that, or would I have to do it for each chapter?
>
> Ironically, if I did it for each one, I could do it concurrently, which
> would make it last 20 min, rather than a full hour.  :)

Never tried it with Real and/or CarTalk, so I don't know.  I suspect
you'll just have to give it a try.

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