Re: Using mplayer save RealMedia audio in a sensible format?
On Thursday 30 September 2004 19:50, Adam Funk wrote:
> Sorry: I'm sure I've most of the man mplayer page a few times and I
> still can't figure out how to do this. I want to convert a RealPlayer
> URL stream into a file in some sensible (e.g. WAV, Ogg, MP3) audio
> format.
>
> I started with this:
> mplayer -dumpfile foo.wav -dumpstream rtsp://....ra
> but foo.wav turned out to be a RealMedia file.
Since posting this, I found the answer.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20040508124642.1144B16A50E_hub.freebsd.org%40ns.sol.net
Scroll down to message 5.
"mplayer file.ra -ao pcm" also works as "mplayer -ao pcm rstp://....ra"
and produces a WAV file, audiodump.wav. (I think I had tried the -ao
pcm option in combination with -dumpstream.)
I'm still curious, however. Why does mplayer record to a RealAudio
file, which is not a useful format?
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