On 11-Feb-05 Karl Foley wrote:
Does anyone have a recording of yesterdays (Thursday 10th Feb) Working lunch from BBC2?
I missed it and it had a feature on a local school running Linux
- I'll pickup/return your disk/tape asap.
I do have a copy of the real media file from the BBC website if anyone is interested although it's not the greatest of quality.
ATB, Karl.
Sorry, I didn't reecord it so can't help!
BUT: You got a *COPY* of the real-media file!!! How did you do that?
I.e. presumably the RM file
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/news/olmedia/n5ctrl/progs/business/ working_lunch/working_lunch.rm?start="00:00.0"
as pointed to in the contents of the RAM file
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/progs/business/ working_lunch/working_lunch.ram
(the latter being what what you can directly download from the website).
I don't usually try to download video from the BBC (because of the low-quality issue, especially video, over a slow line). But I do quite a lot of "Listen Again" for radio programs, where the BBC adopts basically the same mechanism.
When you go to "Listen Again" you get a link to a RAM file, which points to the audio RA (".ra") file, and then RealPlayer plays it. But I've never come across a way of capturing the .ra file so as to replay it at leisure and without tying up my phone line.
So I tape it on an audio cassette while it's playing on download and can then re-listen as much as I want. But I'd prefer the original .ra file since, dodgy though its quality may sometimes be, the tape recording is definitely worse.
Hence, 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!
With thanks, Ted.
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