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Re: Getting realplayer streams to disk files



on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:43:20AM -0700, asdfasf asfasf (debian_reader@yahoo.com) wrote:
> This is getting ridiculous. I've been trying for many hours over many
> days now to save realplayer broadcasts to files on my disk and have
> been completely unable to do so. It almost seems as if the realplayer
> software has been _designed_ so that you can't save content you view
> through the player to disk. (I can't actually confirm or deny this
> though through google searches.)

Yes, a design intent of RealPlayer is to obfuscate the process of saving
audio streams to disk.

There are two forms of Realplayer media sources:  files and streams.
You _can_ save the realplayer files (usually *.ram extension).
Realplayer streams (*.ra) are slightly trickier.

There are a few utilities which set up a proxy sound device and redirect
(or split) output to a file.  I've experimented with these but with
little luck.

Better to advocate open alternative streaming technologies.  MP3 is one
such.

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