[linux-audio-user] Howto record PCM (from realplayer)?

[Christian Henz]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 01:48:39 +0100, Wolfgang Woehl <tito at rumford.de> wrote:
> > When I try the dumpstream approach mentioned above,  using
> >
> >     mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile filename -playlist url
> >
> > (since -playlist (at least for me) seems to want an argument), I do
> > get a local file with the contents of the stream, but it is still in
> > some sort of Real-specific format, so that I need to use realplayer
> > to listen to it.  And, so, the original problem recurs: how do I then
> > convert this cached stream to .wav format?  I went to the mplayer
> 
> If you have mplayer, jack and bio2jack you can say
> $ mplayer -ao jack localfile or url
> and capture with some jack recorder like timemachine.
> 

"mplayer -ao pcm -aofile foo.wav foo.rm" should also work

cheers,
Christian