On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Levi Bard wrote:
> On 11/11/05, Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > This is probably a FAQ, but how do I capture a streaming Real Audio stream,
> >
> > and make it into something usable next week, when the URL changes? A
> > Windows-only solution is suboptimal, naturally, but it'll do.
>
> You can do it with mencoder - something like:
> mencoder -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq -ofps
> 30000:1001 -o realcapture.avi rtsp://whatever.url.rm
Alas:
[eben@pc MPlayer-1.0pre4]$ ./mencoder ...
MEncoder 1.0pre4-3.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred 2002 MHz (Family: 6,
Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE
Reading /home/eben/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/home/eben/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Failed to open frameno.avi
Reading config file /home/eben/.mplayer/mencoder: No such file or directory
Font /home/eben/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Resolving rmv8.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server rmv8.bbc.net.uk[212.58.240.194]:554 ...
Cache size set to 640 KBytes
Connected to server: rmv8.bbc.net.uk
success: format: 11 data: 0x0 - 0x0
REAL file format detected.
======= WAVE Format =======
Format Tag: 28515 (0x6F63)
Channels: 2
Samplerate: 44100
avg byte/sec: 32041
Block align: 465
bits/sample: 16
cbSize: 26
Unknown extra header dump: [5d] [0] [10] [0] [15] [0] [d1] [1] [10] [0] [1]
[0] [0] [3] [8] [0] [0] [20] [0] [0] [0] [0] [0] [2] [0] [4]
===========================
Video stream is mandatory!
Exiting...
Looks like I'm missing the Real codec? Odd, I've shown .rm files. The
"Video stream is mandatory" means a video format is selected, and the source
is audio-only (which is true), right? How do I tell it to forget the
(nonexistent) video stream, and just make an MP3 (or whatever) file?
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