Re: [Hampshire] Capture realplayer stream

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Author: Jonathan Hudson
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Capture realplayer stream
On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:59:14 +0100
Simon Reap <simon@???> wrote:

> Tim wrote:
> > I know somebody asked this question a while ago, but I can't find it anywhere
> > (I guess it is still there), I had a look on the wiki but there is nothing
> > there. Can somebody point in the direction of a howto please
> >
> > I am after a BBC realpalyer stream,
>
> I use a script based on one which was I found through the thread you
> mention.
>
> It's on http://squat.homelinux.net/recmp3.sh
>
> It uses vsound, sox, lame and realplayer to capture the stream as a wav,
> then convert to mp3. I've added some tweaks of my own - I record a lot
> of bbc7 listenagain streams, and sometimes found the stream ended early,
> so I added a loop to check the length and re-record if too short. It
> defaults to 32kb encoding at 11.025khz - too low for music but fine for
> the spoken word, which is what I record.
>
> Simon


I've put a script that does ra => OGG, MP3, FLAC, WAV or just RA, at
<http://www.seyrsnys.myzen.co.uk/recram.sh>. Uses mplayer, oggenc,
lame, flac as required. Can also specify quality and duration.

-jh