On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:31:49 Brian K. White wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rodney Baker"
To: Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 12:12 PM Subject: [opensuse] A question for the BASH gurus mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile <fifo> -playlist "<url>" ffmpeg -i <fifo>
. What I would like to know is if there is a way to redirect the output from mplayer directly to ffmpeg without having to use the named pipe and two konsole sessions. So far nothing I've tried has worked. I'm guessing that there is likely to be more than one way to do this in a single step but I haven't been able to make it work yet.
Because you have to do a little too much for a single command line in a web browser helper app definition, you might as well just put the commands into a script and run "myscript <url-in> <mp3-file-out>" [...snip...] I wouldn't do any of this junk however.
Thanks Brian, David (Bolt) and Randall for your responses - all useful and informative. I've checked out streamripper but it doesn't seek to support .rm streams from my initial investigations. I have also been searching for a way to handle rtmp:// streams; some of these have links that are really obfuscated to make them hard to capture. For one particular site I've only found one solution that works, so far; unfortunately it is a Windoze app so I need to keep that XP partition on the laptop a little longer...:-(. Regards, -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== Spark's Sixth Rule for Managers: If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as if he had lost his senses. When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him.