[MPlayer-users] Recording RealAudio faster than "real time"? (And use from at.)

[Adam Funk]

> > mplayer -ao pcm -aofile FOO.wav rtsp://URL/URL.ra
> > 
> > I've noticed that if I'm recording a 30-minute radio show, for
> > example, it takes 30 minutes for that command to run, although I think
> > the input is downloaded much faster than that.  
> 
> If it's a stream (rtsp in this case), it isn't comming-in faster than
> realtime.

I have however discovered something useful about recording 
multi-part radio shows: the parts can be downloaded and
recorded simultaneously.  A script such as the following works
very efficiently:

mplayer -really-quiet -ao pcm -aofile foo-01.wav 'rtsp://url.../foo-01.ra' & 
mplayer -really-quiet -ao pcm -aofile foo-02.wav 'rtsp://url.../foo-02.ra' & 
mplayer -really-quiet -ao pcm -aofile foo-03.wav 'rtsp://url.../foo-03.ra' & 
...
wait