On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:01:58PM -0700, Bryan wrote: | > $ man mplayer | > [...] | > $ mplayer -dumpstream http://your.stream.com/stream.mp3 -dumpfile | > stream.mp3 | > | | | I did find that, but the stream is not an .mp3 file. | | here is one of links that I connect to... San Diego KIOZ-FM 105.3 FM | | http://64.62.193.13:80/D/260/19768/v0001/reflector:42778/ | | This is an .asf file. Opening this in a browser gives me the same | link. I read the FAQ about that as well. Mplayer has no qualms about | running this file as is. | | Can I dump the stream directly as an .mp3 file? I didn't think that | was possible without using some kind of encoder like LAME (which I | have installed).
You could try using mencoder. Read the manpage (it's the same as mplayer(1)) for more details. Another option is to play the stream and output to a file "device". This will give you a raw dump of the audio stream which you can then convert with lame (or again with mencoder). Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]