> When I try the dumpstream approach mentioned above, using > > mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile filename -playlist url > > (since -playlist (at least for me) seems to want an argument), I do > get a local file with the contents of the stream, but it is still in > some sort of Real-specific format, so that I need to use realplayer > to listen to it. And, so, the original problem recurs: how do I then > convert this cached stream to .wav format? I went to the mplayer If you have mplayer, jack and bio2jack you can say $ mplayer -ao jack localfile or url and capture with some jack recorder like timemachine. Wolfgang
