[Gllug] Recording a RealAudio radio programme...

[Dylan]

On Friday 03 October 2003 10:07 am, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
<SNIP>
> I've tinkered with that and managed it (for recording bbc7).
> It's quite simple if you're using alsa
> go into alsamixer, and turn up the volume on the capture device and the aux
> device, press space on both of them to select them as capture devices.
>
> Then you can just use /dev/dsp as the audio capture device.
>
> i.e. cat /dev/dsp > london.raw
> or use oggenc/whatever other program you want to use to capture it.

OK, I've played with this a bit - 

cat /dev/dsp scrolls 'stuff' on the screen (which I assume is the raw sound 
data) so I figure the audio is coming through. Unfortunately oggenc says: /
dev/dsp is not a valid file format. Any further things I should be looking 
at?

Dylan
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