On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 19:22 -0700, c m wrote:
> --- Punit Ahluwalia <punit_a@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Is there a way to convert real player format to mp3
> > or wav?
> >
>
> Wav is easiest
>
> mplayer -ao pcm:file=file.wav source
>
> here is a script which uses
> mplayer and external program lame to encode a mp3
> from source
>
> #!/bin/bash
> FIFO="MYFIFO"
> PLAYER="mplayer"
> ENCODER="lame"
> PLAYER_LOC=`which $PLAYER`
> ENCODER_LOC=`which $ENCODER`
> PLAYER_OPTS="-ao pcm:file="$FIFO" -vo null -vc dummy "
> ENCODER_OPTS=""
>
> if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
> echo "Usage: "$0" <source> <out filename>"
> exit 1
> fi
>
> if [ ${#PLAYER_LOC} -eq 0 ]; then
> echo "This requires "$PLAYER" be present in your
> path"
> exit 1
> fi
>
> if [ ${#ENCODER_LOC} -eq 0 ]; then
> echo "This requires "$ENCODER" be present in your
> path"
> exit 1
> fi
>
> if [ ! -f $FIFO ]; then
> mkfifo $FIFO
> else
> echo "FIFO "$FIFO" already exists. Exiting"
> exit 1
> fi
>
> $PLAYER $PLAYER_OPTS ${1} &
> $ENCODER $ENCODER_OPTS $FIFO ${2}
> rm $FIFO
Interesting. But that's only for audio files. Will something
like it also work on video files?
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