On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:36:35 +0000
"Victor Churchill" <victorchurchill@???> wrote:
> A while ago there was a big thread about capturing BBC 'Listen again
> with RealPlayer' feeds and I successfully saved some stuff using
> tricks like (beware the wrap)
>
> mplayer -vc null -vo null "`cat Desktop/prom55_20mins.ram`" -ao
> pcm:file=PromsKlingsorTalk.wav
>
> having saved the .ram link from the web page; the .ram file looked like
> rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio3/proms/prom55.ra?start=0:00:58&end=2:33:00&BBC-UID=94c5eb708a334b87700ac9b511fafca28b3bd4f850c021331261f63b628d599b&SSO2-UID=c
>
>
> Now that BBC has replaced the RealPlayer and "BBC Player" with
> "iPlayer", and I cannot locate any references to such files on the
> current 'iPlayer radio' pages.
>
> Has anyone found a way round this yet? I'm running Gutsy, and found
> nothing on the Ubuntu forums.
>
The RA streams remain as before; -playlist foo.ram should work, or try
http://dave.org.uk/streams/, scroll to the bottom and and grab the YAML
(raw data) file. There you will find all the rtsp: links. Remove all
the crap after .ra and it works just fine. Add -bandwidth 999999999 to
download at wire speed.
-jonathan
(listening to this am's CD Review of Die Walküre, downloaded as
described above).
