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2009/9/1 Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx>: > > 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 ....) > > > -- not tried auto, but normal procedure I use (normally for video streams) is open network stream, copy url into appropriate field, choose stream and follow intructions - set file to stream to, encapsulation etc Exact process depends on version of vlc -- 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