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On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:51:07 +0100 kevin <kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 14:47 +0100, Henry Bremridge wrote: > > Just discovered the joy of podcasts: that allow me to catch up on > > current affairs while driving / cutting the $%^&& grass etc > > > > Radio 4 with mplayer I have found a process that works. In short > > > > - go to the bbc iplayer site and find your program > > - go http://www.iplayerconverter.co.uk/convert.aspx and > > enter the PID > > - Take the resulting link and add it to the following (all > > on one line) > > mplayer -cache 2048 -bandwidth 9999999 > > "rtsp://...........................................ra" > > -vc null -vo null -ao > > pcm:fast:waveheader:file=filename.wav > > - Convert to ogg eg > > oggenc -q1 filename.wav > > > > In reading around, VLC should automate the whole process: directly > > read the radio show (this it does) and then convert the stream > > directly to ogg or mp3 or whatever > > > > (I tried with mplayer but could not get that to work; hence this > > mplayer command line script that I found on the ubuntu forums) > > > > For some reason however I cannot get VLC to save the stream to my > > hard-drive. VLC does play the stream without any problem. > > > > Can anyone who has used VLC provide any tips? (What is irritating is > > that all the gui looks very simple to understand, I just cannot get > > it to work. The manual is also very explicit but ....) > > > I stumbled upon this method by accident ( Dont know if it's legal but > it works fine) > Open Audacity > Play any media from the Internet YouTube BBCI player etc > press record on audacity > and the stream is recorded (you can also set a timed record but > obvoiusly you would need a cron to open a browser to a link which > started playing) > > I first had trouble with audacity just recording 0.5 secs then failing > but setting the sample rate to 48000 fixed it > You can then export your streamed sound file ( after editing out the > bits you don't want) using File/Export > as flac ogg or Mp3 > Simples... > > Nb I havn't got the hang of VLC yet either. I know it's not a Free codec, but I tend to just use "get_iplayer" - it dumps the data out as MP3, which I find works on most devices I would want to play them on (ie my phone, my computer(s), my car stereo, etc). Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html