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Re: Getting realplayer streams to disk files



Check vsound, it is supposed to do what you want.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/vsound/

"Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> 
> 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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