On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 14:53 +1030, Tim wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan: > >> Following on from that, do you know of a way to capture the stream using > >> mplayer (or anything else for that matter)? RFM I guess, but the FM is > >> rather long and complex :-) > > Marko Vojinovic: > > mplayer -ao pcm:fast,file=givemeaname.wav -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/rams/inourtime_20081009.ram > > > > Note that this should be one line, it might get word-wrapped. > > That will transcode the stream to your requested format, rather than > capture the stream. But it's probably more what people want to do. > > One advantage with capturing the raw stream is that you *may* get it > with some descriptive meta information in the stream (titles that give > you a who, where, what, etc.). Though some streams are just as > anonymous as wav files. That's good. I tried it and it seems to be pretty much what I want: mplayer -dumpfile MyStream.out -dumpstream -playlist <URL> and a subsequent call to mplayer will then play the stream. Thanks to all who offered advice. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines