Re: Using mplayer save RealMedia audio in a sensible format?

From: Adam Funk (a24061_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:01:55 GMT
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    On Thursday 30 September 2004 19:50, Adam Funk wrote:

    > Sorry: I'm sure I've most of the man mplayer page a few times and I
    > still can't figure out how to do this. I want to convert a RealPlayer
    > URL stream into a file in some sensible (e.g. WAV, Ogg, MP3) audio
    > format.
    >
    > I started with this:
    > mplayer -dumpfile foo.wav -dumpstream rtsp://....ra
    > but foo.wav turned out to be a RealMedia file.

    Since posting this, I found the answer.
    http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20040508124642.1144B16A50E_hub.freebsd.org%40ns.sol.net
    Scroll down to message 5.
    "mplayer file.ra -ao pcm" also works as "mplayer -ao pcm rstp://....ra"
    and produces a WAV file, audiodump.wav. (I think I had tried the -ao
    pcm option in combination with -dumpstream.)

    I'm still curious, however. Why does mplayer record to a RealAudio
    file, which is not a useful format? 

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