On Thursday 12 April 2007, Till Maas wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > BBC Radio 4, last evening, broadcast a half-hour program about OSS. > > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/z9ksy/ > > > > I'd like to record this, to listen again later. I'm sure it can be done, > > but > > this is new to me. What do I need to do this? Thanks > > The following (all in one line) should work and store the stream in the > file radio.ra: > > $ mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile radio.ra > rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/science/sci9_wed.ra > > The url is written in > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio4/opensource.ram which is > the link named "Listen using stand-alone Real Player" > > You may need mplayer from livna or freshrpms or somewhere if you do not > have it already. > I do so like an elegant solution :-) Nothing new to download and install. Great stuff. I've now got a file which appears to be only 9.6MB, and plays beautifully in realplayer. Thanks to all who answered. Anne
