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

Robert Bailey wrote: Hi. Thanks for discussing this problem; I've been struggling with it for quite a while. 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 site and downloaded the Real-Video(/Audio?) related tgz, and tried to install it in all the reasonable places I could think of, but got no happiness. I'm clearly missing something, or there must be another approach to this problem. It's almost as if there must be some way of interposing an ALSA-aware (and re-directable) loopback device for /dev/dsp. I can almost taste it, it's so close. But my poor brain sizzles before I get the taste of the solution. (or something). Any insights? /ken /ken