[MPlayer-users] encoding realplayer audio only streams to mp3

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 27 July 2005 at 20:08, Nigel Jenkins wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to work out if there is a one pass way of recording a 
> realaudio stream (off the web) into a mp3 file.
> 
> I've currently worked out I can stream the file and output it as a wave 
> file using the following command:
> 
>   mplayer rtsp://someserver/somefile.ra -ao pcm
> 
> Then I can use lame to encode to mp3.
> 
> What I'd like to do is something like:
> 
>   mplayer rtsp://someserver/somefile.ra -ao mp3
> 
> and encode directly to mp3 format.

Well, there isn't and probably won't be something like that in MPlayer.
But you can use a fifo and encode directly from -ao pcm.
There are numerous examples all over this mailing list.

> I looked at mencoder and it can see the file, but because the stream has 
> no video it fails with the "Video stream is mandatory!" error.

No surprise here. After all, MEncoder stands for Movie Encoder.

R.

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