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.
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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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
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:
cat file.ram to get the rtsp://url.of/thestream.rm out of it
mplayer -cache 96 -ao pcm -vo yuv4mpeg rtsp://url.of/thestream.rm
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.
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:07:14 -0000 (GMT), Ted Harding
mplayer -noframedrop -dumpfile out.rm -dumpstream rtsp://url/to/file.rm You can then watch or listen to out.rm with realplay or mplayer.
Thanks for that.
Looks like I need to install mplayer!
Here is some very straight forward help for .deb fans : http://www.princessleia.com/MPlayer2.html (ie. what to add to your /etc/apt/sources.list for Stable, Testing and Unstable)
Tim.
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