On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:13:35 +1100, "David P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 10/30/07, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > The machine I'm working on is short of space - anyone know of a way > > (using mplayer or another tool) to record a Windoze media stream > > directly to mp3/ogg, rather than creating a large intermediate raw file > > and then converting to mp3/ogg? > > Easy, mencoder, which comes in the mplayer package. It has exactly the > same syntax as mplayer, just that you won't need the -vc, -vo, and -ao > options in mencoder; instead just specify "-o thefile.mp3" and "-oac > toolame" (I personally use mp3lame, but seeing that you used toolame > yourself :P) The -novideo option is probably useful as well. Just > check out the mplayer/mencoder man page, it has everything.
Thanks for you replies (Alex, Patrick and David)! Using mencoder like this sounds the best way to go. Re the manpage yes I've read it, but in the spirit of "manpages considered harmful" been overwhelmed by it. mplayer/mencoder is obviously the swiss army light saber of audio/video manipulation, but working out how to use it is another matter... :-) -- Sonia Hamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
