[Gllug] How does RhythmBox do it?

[Ian Scott]

> 
> First you need the appropriate .ram file ("Listen using standalone
> RealPlayer", then save the file).
> 
> mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile audio.dmp -ao null `cat whatever.ram`
> mplayer -quiet -vo null -vc dummy -af volume=3D0,resample=3D44100:0:1 \
> -ao pcm:waveheader:file=3D"audio.wav" audio.dmp
> oggenc audio.wav
> 
> Unfortunately the first step happens in real time - if it's a half hour
> program it will take half an hour to download.  I'm still working on
> putting it all in a script which I can then invoke directly from Firefox.
> 

You can use the -bandwidth option in mplayer to suck the stream down real fast.

See http://www.tomtaylor.co.uk/blog/2007/04/17/play-it-again/

I have a script which downloads stuff from Radio 4 automagically, and fetching
a half-hour program only takes a few minutes - the slow bit is reencoding from
wav to mp3.

By the way, you may find http://dave.org.uk/streams/ more usful than the BBC 
site for extracting the streams info.

Cheers

Ian



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