[linux-audio-user] Re: Recording internet radio using MPlayer

[Paul]

Kevin Sookocheff <kbs464 at mail.usask.ca>, on Tue Jun 21, 2005 [01:08:54 PM] said:
> Hi,
> 
> ????????I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this but hopefully some of 
> you have done this before.
> 
> 	I've managed to get everything working as it should when recording internet 
> from the command line using mplayer. ?But I still have a problem recording 
> using cron to record at specific times.
> 

	Hi;

	I think mplayer likes to have an interactive tty. You could
try using ogg123, eg:

ogg123 -d wav -f myfile.wav 'http://oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca:80/cbcr2-toronto.ogg'

or just snag the stream:

wget -O myfile.ogg http://oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca:80/cbcr2-toronto.ogg

Paul
set at pobox.com