Re: OT - How to save real audio files?
This is slightly offtopic, but I just downloaded Real Player and I was wondering if there was a way to save real audio file locally so I don't have to fire up my ppp connection just to listen to .ram files. One way is to install squid and then force the realplayer to use your squid HTTP proxy. With any luck, squid will save the offending files on disk (check the cache logs). I can't give any detailed help here, though -- I only use realplayer on rare occasions. Good luck. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgp1U0CC0hv8n.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT - How to save real audio files?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 12 Oct 1999, Paul Seelig wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cyrus Patel) writes: This is slightly offtopic, but I just downloaded Real Player and I was wondering if there was a way to save real audio file locally so I don't have to fire up my ppp connection just to listen to .ram files. You might want to consider this: snip Begin3 Title:paudio [[[SNIP description of an audio loopback module]]] This is also available with the standard ALSA modules (at least, with ALSA version 0.41b). /proc/asound/card/pcmloopD0S0p should be it, but it may vary depending on your exact card. I haven't done an in-depth study, but the audio quality is good enough that i don't notice much difference. The only bad part is that you have to figure out the number of channels, sample rate, bit format, and size to pass to play/sox. It seems this will even work with the ALSA dummy audio device. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOAPfqb7M/9WKZLW5AQFc1gP6A9kxw6nF2yzDzzlfH0qkdTPZLrQ4VIkG s+94ZSA2+mPm0UXz6pGGeEqrQWPse1JDprTDibXwoF7fYe3beWpUhBs9O6i4xBar 6WXhqi95vxX+7wG65teYj8LOuvBrnF63h0f9T+Hwbo198prxBO89h1pE7XDOpdZC xmcrEcTd2ZU= =NP1g -END PGP SIGNATURE-
OT - How to save real audio files?
Hi Guys, This is slightly offtopic, but I just downloaded Real Player and I was wondering if there was a way to save real audio file locally so I don't have to fire up my ppp connection just to listen to .ram files. Also, is there a way to convert .rm files to wav? Thanks alot, Cyrus -- Cyrus Patel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Engineering Debian GNU/Linux University of New South Wales (Potato) Sydney, Australia.
RE: OT - How to save real audio files?
On 12-Oct-99 Cyrus Patel wrote: Hi Guys, This is slightly offtopic, but I just downloaded Real Player and I was wondering if there was a way to save real audio file locally so I don't have to fire up my ppp connection just to listen to .ram files. It depends (aspects of this are covered in the RealPlayer documentation). First of all, if the supplier of the RA file doesn't want it saved or copied, you will not be able to do that. Such files carry some sort of signature which RealPlayer recognises and honours. For files which are not protected in this way, you may or may not be able to save them or download them directly. Some versions of RealPlayer have a save button which appears when a file, which is being played, is not protected. You can use this to save the file. Again, this is covered in the documentation. When you get the .ram file from the supplying site, this usually has a URL to the location of the .ra file (the actual audio file) itself, similar to the following: pnm://broadcast9.activate.net/radiofree/channel1.rm pnm://ras.radio.cz/zpravy.ra You will find, in the case of the first of these, that you cannot access the site with a browser and therefore, as far as I know, you will not be able to download the file directly using this URL. However, if you go to http://www.rferl.org and poke about, you may be able to find the equivalent (and, in this case, it takes a good deal of poking); in that case, you can download it by ftp. In the second case (if I remember right) you will be able to download the file directly by ftp. In summary: your mileage may vary. And in unpredictable ways. Also, is there a way to convert .rm files to wav? I don't know the answer to that (and I wish I did). Hope this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12-Oct-99 Time: 14:00:09 -- XFMail --
Re: OT - How to save real audio files?
(Ted Harding) wrote: When you get the .ram file from the supplying site, this usually has a URL to the location of the .ra file (the actual audio file) itself, similar to the following: pnm://broadcast9.activate.net/radiofree/channel1.rm pnm://ras.radio.cz/zpravy.ra You will find, in the case of the first of these, that you cannot access the site with a browser and therefore, as far as I know, you will not be able to download the file directly using this URL. You can't open these URLs with a browser, but you can open them with RealPlayer's Open Location... menu item. - Kris
Re: OT - How to save real audio files?
real audio/video has a protection scheme, which lets the broadcaster decide wether they want you to be able to record the stream or not. there was a crack floating around for the winXX version to record RA but i havent seen a linux one(and i dont have the winXX one either, it was about 2 years ago ..) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Cyrus Patel wrote: Hi Guys, This is slightly offtopic, but I just downloaded Real Player and I was wondering if there was a way to save real audio file locally so I don't have to fire up my ppp connection just to listen to .ram files. Also, is there a way to convert .rm files to wav? Thanks alot, Cyrus -- Cyrus Patel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Engineering Debian GNU/Linux University of New South Wales (Potato) Sydney, Australia. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: OT - How to save real audio files?
On 12-Oct-99 Kristopher Johnson wrote: (Ted Harding) wrote: When you get the .ram file from the supplying site, this usually has a URL to the location of the .ra file (the actual audio file) itself, similar to the following: pnm://broadcast9.activate.net/radiofree/channel1.rm pnm://ras.radio.cz/zpravy.ra You will find, in the case of the first of these, that you cannot access the site with a browser and therefore, as far as I know, you will not be able to download the file directly using this URL. You can't open these URLs with a browser, but you can open them with RealPlayer's Open Location... menu item. - Kris Sure -- but this doesn't of itself enable you to save the file locally, I think. Am I wrong? Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12-Oct-99 Time: 16:37:00 -- XFMail --
RE: OT - How to save real audio files?
On 12-Oct-99 Ted Harding wrote: On 12-Oct-99 Cyrus Patel wrote: Also, is there a way to convert .rm files to wav? I don't know the answer to that (and I wish I did). Hope this helps, Ted. Which reminds me -- I have a related query of my own. If you want to try the files I'm talking about, get http://216.231.54.128/tmvl/ra/vv/sergen01.ra, /sergen02.ra, ... /sergen21.ra (Netscape will automatically download these to your local drive, if you get them as above). These are a series of readings, each of one Turkish poem with background music. When you listen to them in sequence, you realise that they are a dissection of what must originally have been a continuous performance lasting about 45 minutes (the clue is in the music). What I would like to be able to do is to join them back together again, so as to have one big file which would recreate (possible with audible joins) the original continuous performance. So my question is: does anyone know how to glue two or more RealAudio files together into one big file? Simply concatenating them does not work: RealPlayer plays the first section, then whereas its clock shows it working through the remainder you hear no sound. With thanks, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12-Oct-99 Time: 17:20:49 -- XFMail --
