[GRLUG] saving streaming media

[Michael Mol]

Here's how I do it.

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.

On 4/2/07, Topher <topher at wcsg.org> wrote:
> Here's my story:
>
> I bought an eipsode of cartalk from audible.com  I can't even begin to
> tell you what a mess that whole process is.  I now have the file I bought
> though.  Burning it to a cd is a headache and a half, and now that I've
> heard it I'm not even sure I want to.  It sounds like they just stuck a
> mic in front a cheap boom box and hit record.  The quality is AWFUL.
>
> On the other hand, on the Car Talk website, you can listen to the latest
> episode in RealAudio.  Out of what is probably laziness, the filenames are
> logically named, so you can cheat and put in any episode number you want
> and listen to back stories.  The quality is really quite decent.
>
> So what I want to do is play my epsiode from their real server and grab
> the output to a file.
>
> I'm running Ubuntu Dapper, and I'd rather not do this in Windows if I
> don't have to.
>
> I know it's fairly common, anyone have anyt software they love?
>
> Topher
> Manager of Internet Services
> Cornerstone University Radio
>
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