Re: [SLE] recording Streaming Media

On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 18:30 +0100, John Pettigrew wrote:

In a previous message, Mike McMullin wrote:

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The Boss wants to record some streaming audio from the Beeb (BBC) and then burn it to disk. IIRC there's a way to do this in Linux, but I don't have the foggiest idea. Any suggestions or ideas? BTW it's a 10.0 system

MPlayer will do this very nicely. IIRC, something like: mplayer [URL] -dumpstream -dumpfile [filename]

I've found this works very nicely for BBC files (usually RealAudio).

Now I need to get an actual URL out of the Beeb. <sigh> I thought there was a way to tap into the stream as it was coming in and put a copy on disk, possibly tapping the sound out to the speakers as the input for this. Google has a lot of help, but not I'm not seeing anything simple enough for a non-tech like the Boss to use. Mike