Re: Saving some real radio file

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Mike McGuire wrote:
> 
> > > I want to save some real files, but this option is not allowed when you
> > > run real player, is there any way of doing it? I figure dumping or
> > > piping it, what would be the way of calling the executable for real
> > > player from command line?
> >
> > Not for streaming realaudio files (*.ra).  Most *.ram files *can* be
> > saved.
> >
> > There was a utility out a few years back which was supposed to allow
> > saving a RealAudio stream to disk.  It did this, IIRC, by running
> > interference between rplayer and your audio device.  Unfortunately, I
> > could only ever save about ten seconds of audio before it would lock up
> > or quit.
> 
> hm. not sure if this is the same thing, but there is / was something
> called streambox vcr. unfortunately, it's windows-only, and isn't
> being maintained (AFAIK) and is hard to find because, well, Real sued
> them. heh.
> 
> you might have as much luck complaining to whoever runs the site to
> use a different (more open) codec. ;)

  you can also record the soundcard output, I don't remember theprogram
name(s) but I remember announcements of such programs, check freshmeat
(or debian packages)

	erik