On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 21:02 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > for example > > right click on the link that says "listen to this clip in stand alone > realplayer" and download the .ram or .rpm file > > cat that file and you will find an rtsp url > > then: > > mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile dads_army.ra > rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/bbc7/0800_thu.ra (thats all one line)
to add to that you can also download and simultaneously encode to something else, consider this very very loose script: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin $ cat enc-net #!/bin/bash mkfifo audiodump.wav mplayer $1 -ao pcm:file=audiodump.wav -cache 32 & oggenc audiodump.wav -o $2 #---script end now you can, to follow up the previous example: enc-net rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/bbc7/0800_thu.ra dads_army.ogg although I note on a quick trial that the file size is twice as big as an ogg as the .ra file was. you may also need to fiddle with the cache setting, I have not tested extensively. Anyway there are more than sufficient tools on linux now to play a huge variety of media files. I cannot work out how helix player and real player interact, or the particular licensing philosphy behind helix/realplay. I am just happy that it works! -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
