On 11-Feb-05 Joe Button wrote:
if you have tips for capturing RM/RA streams as they are downloaded from the BBC site, I'd be very grateful to learn how it's done!
Never tried it with video so I don't know the whole answer but I got this far:
1) wget http://theramfile.ram
2) cat file.ram to get the rtsp://url.of/thestream.rm out of it
3) mplayer -cache 96 -ao pcm -vo yuv4mpeg rtsp://url.of/thestream.rm
4) this should give you the audio and video files - combining them is left as an exercise for the reader (ie. I don't know how to do it off the top of my head)
Maybe there's a way to get them both captured to the same file - not sure.
HTH a bit
Joe
Well, it got me googling which led me to the following "howto": http://thomer.com/howtos/capture_realstream.html which says: Capture or record a real audio/video (rtsp) stream in Linux Problem You want to save (capture) a RealAudio or RealVideo stream to a file for later viewing or listening. Keywords Real, RealAudio, RealVideo, capture, record, streaming, stream, rip, ripping, mplayer, Linux. Solution mplayer -noframedrop -dumpfile out.rm -dumpstream rtsp://url/to/file.rm You can then watch or listen to out.rm with realplay or mplayer. which is along the lines you suggest. Looks like I need to install mplayer! Has anyone any comments/experiences with mplayer on Red Hat 9? Thanks again, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 11-Feb-05 Time: 20:18:26 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------