[MPlayer-users] Correct way to record a realaudio stream?

[Nico]

try to change -dumpstream with -dumpaudio

Raphael Clifford wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I am attempting to record a real audio stream so I can listen to it on 
> my laptop when it is disconnected.  I am using
>
> mplayer rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/sat1230.ra  -dumpfile file.ra 
> -dumpstream
>
> Is this the wrong way to do it?  I ask because  file.ra is not 
> playable in an official realplayer at this point.  The linux 
> realplayer plays with no sound (it is an audio only file!) and the 
> windows one simply sits there buffering forever.  It seems, at a 
> guess, that the official realplayers think the data should still be 
> streaming over the net despite having been given a file.  Obviously 
> the don't receive any data over the net and so don't play anything.  
> The URL can be played perfectly well in the official realplayers.
>
> The main reason I would like to use an official realplayer is that I 
> can't work out how to seek/skip in mplayer for this type of file.  Is 
> there anyway to do this?
>
> Cheers,
> Raphael
> P.S.
> MPlayer dev-CVS-030730-10:51-3.1
> redhat 7.3 with gcc 3.1 installed
>
>
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