On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 01:48:39 +0100, Wolfgang Woehl <tito@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > "mplayer -ao pcm -aofile foo.wav foo.rm" should also work cheers, Christian