Graham Watkins wrote: > And here's the secondpart. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [newbie] Recording Net-Radio Broadcasts (Chpt 2) > Date: 25 Jun 2002 03:39:17 -0400 > From: Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: NewbieMandrake-List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > In the previous email to this one I demonstrated how you could bring the > Sox sound utility up to speed with Ogg Vorbis encoding. Because of some > very competent and excellent help I now know we need to amend the sox > installation steps. > Formerly it looked like this: > __________________________________________________ > ./configure make > After that we need to edit the Makefile that we just made. Do > vi Makefile __________________________________________________ > Now it looks like: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib \ > --sysconfdir=/etc > make make install > With no editing of the Makefile, and everything else remains the same. > Much better approach; thanks Tom Lyons! However, as dfox pointed out, > sox likes to put uncompressed man page files out there, so after Tom > Lyon's ./configure addition above we still need to do the following: > cd /usr/share/man/man1 > (deleting the old originals) > rm -f sox.1.bz2 rm -f play.1.bz2 rm -f soxexam.1.bz2 > (compressing the newer and more up to date manpages) > bzip2 sox.1 bzip2 play.1 bzip2 soxexam.1 > There are symlinks in the man1 directory that point to the compressed > man page filenames; we need not destroy or recreate those because they > will become valid as we replace their targets with the proper files. > (after the bzip2 process.) > Now we will put Sox to work as we get Realplayer installed and > functional. The Sox recompile has been and is the most complicated part > of this (unless you are hunting Windows Media streams, but that's > another time), so don't run yet. The rest is pretty straightforward > stuff. > Realplayer can be a little tricky to get ahold of if you haven't done it > before. There are two ways I can think of for everyone here and neither > one of them involve going to the Realplayer site for a download. I've > heard fuzziness about the binaries on the Realplayer site, and haven't > experienced them myself, but have listened intently to others. > The number one way to get Realplayer is to be a member of the Mandrake > Club. Like me, for instance. ;D In that case you can get it from the > following link: > http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=search&query=realplayer > > > > This gets you RealPlayer-8.0-3mdk.i586.rpm; which is a newer and slicker > rpm. Works better too, IMO. > If you are NOT a Mandrake Club member, you can get the rpm from this > link: > ftp://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/freshrpms/misc/RealPlayer-8.0-1.i386.rpm > > > > After you download the rpm from one of these, you go to the directory > you put it in ( ~/tmp, perhaps) and issue the following: > rpm -ivh RealPlayer-8.0-blah.rpm > You also need to review at this point that your soundcard is fully > functional, and also that you have Kmix installed. Kmix is a graphical > util that controls all available aspects of your soundcard as it sees > them; and usually it sees the most. If you don't have it pull up > rpmdrake and do a search on your installation cd's for it. > Now pull up Kmix from your menu or from an Eterm or terminal prompt. > You will notice a bunch of sliders and alot of green lights, with one > red light lit up across the bottom. The greens represent all sources > that are sending to or have access to /dev/dsp. Turn them ALL OFF except > for anything labeled with a RED right triangle across the top, and the > master volume and PCM sliders. Of the Red right triangles, there are > only two that seem to affect recording on my system: Ogain and Recmon. > These need to have green lights. If you have these two sliders, leave > them green and turn the other red triangles off. This is important. > The controls vary from soundcard to soundcard, depending on it's > features. You may need to experiment; but this section gives you the > basic blueprint. > Your soundcard may be different in the next step too, so again you may > have to experiment. Notice that the Master and PCM sliders are almost > to the top; they work just fine right there. Move your Gain sliders > almost to the bottom; the same degree that the Master/PCM sliders are > from the top. Know what I mean here? This is the proper degree of > adjustment for my system; I assume here that it will work for you as > well. > Now let's deal with the red lights across the bottom. This represents > your recording source; and There Will Only Be One. Yep, just like > Highlander. Your One needs to be Master, so make sure that one is lit > up under the Master slider, and all the other ones are dark. What am I > doing and why, you ask? Well, noise is a real problem. By carefully > targeting what channels are active and deactivating the majority of > them, you are assured ( or given a higher probability of getting) a > noise free recording. If a channel is not on, you can't get static from > it. > Now we prep Realplayer for testing. Open up an Eterm or terminal of > your choice and type "realplay" at the command line. Go ahead and give > it bogus information so it won't bug you anymore. Go into > Preferences-Support and disable "Supply connection-quality data to > RealServers", so unsolicited packets will not be sent out of your > machine. Under "Sound Card Compatibility", make sure that 16 bit is not > disabled (unless you need it to be). Under "Audio Driver Options" the > best way to go is to run RealPlayer under Esd, or Esound support. This > means that the Esd daemon should be running. If not, you can probably > stay with the native drivers option and things will work; I just > sometimes like doing several things at once, and Esd allows one to do > that without locking the sound device. Stuff like playing a late nite > game and listening to news, if you arent recording. Now close > Realplayer; I think that's everything. > OK, this is the acid test. Pull up konqueror and just for a test go to > the following URL: > >http://mediaframe.yahoo.com/launch?lid=rna-14-p.924052&p=radio&c=affiliate&f=278153903&.abg=ffffff&.small=1&.ch_cursel=&.rst=a&.adw=http%3a//www.broadcast.com/radio/talk/wtaw/wtaw_dw.htm&.image=http%3a//us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/radio/st/WTAW.gif&a=0,30
Ok up to here > > > > Pick Realplayer and the 28.8 speed internet connection. After you accept > settings, you will get a download dialog. Tell it to "open". When you > get the "open with" dialog, type in "realplay" and hit OK. > Now Realplayer should come up and you should be connected to WTAW radio > out of College Station, Texas. This where this are not quite the same Yes, I get the WTAW radio , Yes I had the open with dialog and went OK to open, but no sound , and a warning:- Invalid Makefile file//tmp/mediaplaylist.dill > You should be hearing sound out of your > speakers now. If not, double check your Kmix settings. > Now dfox is rubbing his hands together cause he knows it's going to get > interesting. ;) OK, in your Eterm or fav terminal program, and also > while you are in your ~/tmp dir or similar, you want to enter the > following: > sox -V -c2 -r 44100 -t ossdsp -w -s /dev/dsp test.ogg > This should start (transparently) recording your net broadcast whilst > you are simultaneously listening to it. If you want to terminate the > recording to listen to the ogg file, hit cntrl-c and sox will properly > terminate the file. > Explanation of the above settings: > -V tells you what Sox is doing as it does it. Otherwise you don't see > too much. > -c2 sets up the recording for two channels in stereo. > -r 44100 samples the sound data from /dev/dsp at CD quality rate. > -t ossdsp -w -s /dev/dsp is a system of qualifiers that tells sox what > kind of device file it should be listening to and what to expect from > the data type that's coming from it; i.e., your soundcard's digital data > stream.2 > test.ogg looks innocuous, but the suffix of the filename is telling sox > what kind of file you want to record! That's right, there's no extra > qualifier for the type of output file; it interprets what you want from > the output file suffix. Thus, if you want wav, you put test.wav. And > sox records that filetype. > After you've recorded for a while, hit cntrl-c in the terminal window > that you started sox in, and you'll get a command line. Now enter > xmms test.ogg > And listen to what you've got. Hopefully you've got an ogg that > recorded at 370kbps or so. > If you like, while xmms is running, you can run the sox command line > above in a terminal window and make a recording of your recording as it > plays back. Not that it's useful, it's just a demo of what's possible. > Right now I'm working on editing the oggfiles to cut out unwanted > segments; I'll cover that in the next chapter, unless someone has an > editing procedure that they want to share. > LX > > > > > > I do have sound out of realplayer, but I have a via 8233 Mobo sound chip with audio 97 codec ,running on alsa sound driver with aRts enabled, therefore no sound card as such, but as I say realplayer plays audio cd our of my dvd/rom drive.I don't feel that sound card configuration is the problem here. I am using mozilla here not konq, but I tried konq, just the same, only no warning invalid makefile etc came up. I installed realplayer form, ftp://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/freshrpms/misc/RealPlayer-8.0-1.i386.rpm amazingly it installed without problems, no dependencies Oh, Im on M8.2 here. Any suggestions, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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