[MPlayer-dev-eng] audio quality

[Glyco-Radio Network]

Hi Diego - 

If I use MPlayer (rather than encoder), I've found the following works:

-dumpstream mms://mydomain.com/mystream -dumpfile test.blah

But I get a 8Khz recorded stream and have no idea what format its
actually dumping too.

I would like to increase the quality.
I would prefer it dump it to a WM9 pr MP3 format (with tailored
settings).
I would prefer it do it without launching an MS-DOS window

I *looked into* Vorbis as you suggested but have no idea where to start
or how to record a stream of audio via command line as simply as
-dumpstream with MPlayer.  This seems to be exactly what I'm looking
for, providing I can accomplish the above three tasks.

The manual at: http://tivo-mplayer.sourceforge.net/docs/mplayer-man.html
does not give much details (that I can make heads or tails of anyway).

Can anyone clarify what I would need to do to accomplish these tasks?

Thanks in advance!

Daniel



-----Original Message-----
From: mplayer-dev-eng-bounces at mplayerhq.hu
[mailto:mplayer-dev-eng-bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Diego Biurrun
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 4:02 PM
To: mplayer-dev-eng at mplayerhq.hu
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] question

Glyco-Radio Network writes:
> 
> 1. Want to record a stream to the hard drive in the background.
> 2. Want to control the quality of the stream.
> 3. Can't be a huge file, would prefer to encoded as WM9
> 4. Audio only.  No video.

I don't think MEncoder is the right thing for you then.  Try an
application that records Vorbis audio.

Diego

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