Frank-Michael Fischer wrote:
Richard (MQ) wrote:
Further, and maybe veering OT, I know that other players (e.g. Kaffeine) can utilise the codecs, but it's a real fiddle to acquire the relevant URL to hand to them from e.g. the BBC 'listen again' pages. Unless anyone knows something I don't?
Here is e.g. the BBC Radio 3 link:
rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio3/live/r3_dsat_g2.ra
This one you may play in VLC, Kaffeine, MPlayer ....
The way you find it out:
Open the BBC player in firefox -> CTRL-U -> a few HTML lines pop up. Close to the bottom line you'll find:
p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/ram/r3g2.ram">Click here</a> to launch BBC Radio 3 in Real Player.</p>
Enter the following command: "mplayer -dumpstream http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/ram/r3g2.ram"
and now: "cat stream.dump" will show you:
rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio3/live/r3_dsat_g2.ra?BBC-UID=6439e06e2b970a635edc8a605060a3f146b95fecb0c0d1b424efd95f750851fe_n&SSO2-UID=
Forget the "cookie stuff" and use:
rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio3/live/r3_dsat_g2.ra
and off you go without UnRealPlayer.
With: "mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile BBC_RADIO3.ram rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio3/live/r3_dsat_g2.ra" you may even record the live session for later listening, converting, burning, you name it.
Frank-Michael, Yes, thanks - I do already use the techniques that you quote, especially if I want to save a stream to disc, but I think that your post supports very well my assertion that it's a "real fiddle". I was wondering if there was any way to do all this *without* all this cutting and pasting? My programming skills are rather weak as well as rusty, but this doesn't look too difficult to do... BTW - this method still requires the Realplayer codecs of course. The only way AFAIK to obtain the latest ones legitimately is to download and install their player :-( -- Cheers Richard (MQ) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org