[MPlayer-users] Convert file from -dumpstream to .mp3

[jmmckee at flinthills.com]

Quoting The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net>:

> jmmckee at flinthills.com wrote:
>
>> I was in a hurry.  I had a number of streaming files that I wanted to
>> capture. So, I used -dumpstream -dunpfile.
>>
>> I can play the files with mplayer, but would like to convert them to
>> mp3 format.
>>
>> I have looked through a lot of the man pages, but am uncertain if
>> what I want to do is possible.
>>
>> If this is possible, can somebody tell me how to do this??
>
> It can be done, but not directly using MPlayer or MEncoder. The simplest
> (universally reliable) way is a two-step process:
>
> 1. Dump the audio from the stream into a WAV file:
> mplayer stream.dump -vo null -vc dummy -ao pcm:fast:file=filename.wav
>
> 2. Transcode the WAV file into an MP3 file using an external tool, such
> as LAME:
> lame <your preferred MP3 encoding options> filename.wav filename.mp3
>
>
> Alternately, if you'd rather not use multiple tools for a single task,
> you can try FFmpeg:
>
> ffmpeg -i stream.dump <your preferred MP3 encoding options> filename.mp3
>
> This will not necessarily be capable of handling all files which MPlayer
> can play, but it should be able to deal with most types of file.
>
> -- 
>       The Wanderer
>
Just what I needed.  Thank you for the assistance.

John McKee