Christian Henz <christian.henz@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 Yes, I used this to convert problematic formats to ogg :-) Very helpful. If you add "-vc dummy -vo null" you can even extract audio streams from videos pretty easily and fast. -- CYa, Mario
