[linux-audio-user] Recording RealPlayer

[Carl Hetherington]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Christian Convey wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I was wondering if someone could recommend a good way of recording
> RealAudio streams so that they ultimately end up on disk as .wav or .mp3
> or .ogg files.
>
> I looked at Jack, but RealPlay isn't listed as one of Jack's compatible
> applications.
>
> I looked for a RealPlay plugin for XMMS (someone said he used that
> plugin and XMMS's Disk Writer plugin), but I couldn't find it anyway.

Hi,

I've used trplayer
http://www.linux-speakup.org/trplayer.html
with vsound
http://www.xenoclast.org/vsound/
and this works.

You can do something like this
vsound -t -f foo.wav trplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/realplayer/dsatg2.ram &

to record BBC Radio 7 to foo.wav.

HTH

Carl