Ira Abramov wrote:
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED], from the post of Tue, 02 Nov:
Just to update the list for the benefit of others:
1. To record Galatz I now use:
mplayer -noconsolecontrols -nojoystick -nolirc -nomouseinput \
-really-quiet -dumpstream -dumpfile $1 http://213.8.143.165/glz-stream
maybe I am missing a thingy or two, but what's wrong with -ao pcm to
dump WAV directly?
1. There is a good chance I'm missing something myself so I'm glad
you asked this.
2. As far as I understand - the MS encoding is used
already to transport the stuff over the net (am I right about that?)
so saving it in compressed format as-is until I get around to edit it
saves 95% of the disk space without loosing any quality (actual file
sizes: 15Mb of .asf file for one hour of recording vs. 303Mb of .wav
file after decompression with ffmpeg). If I'm wrong about this then
I'd like to know how to fix it.
3. Not completly related to your question but it took me a few evenings
of googling and looking for various programs to decompress the saved
file before I found ffmpeg to do this. Is it possible with
mplayer? Mplayer fails to play the .asf file, only "aviplay" manages to
play it, and it does it very well but I couldn't find a way to tell
"aviplay" or any of its companions to just output to a file instead of
the audio device.
I couldn't understand how to use mplayer for this (i.e. to decompress an
existing .asf file on my local disk into a .wav file (or anything
uncompressed and editable with an interactive program).
Also - I saw at least one place which recommands ffmpeg in particular
as a very fast decoder (45 seconds to decompress 15Mb of ASF on an
Athlon 2500+).
4. (Makes point 3 even more important now) - trying to decompess one of
the older files with ffmpeg (in order to give you speed estimate)
has failed. I guess I'm back to looking up ways to do it.
Thanks,
--Amos
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