How to capture the Roadburn Festival webcast to disk

john-paul hawkwomble at TISCALI.CO.UK
Tue May 23 02:32:14 EDT 2006


times for tracks on roadburn as follows...

right stuff  - 8.31
sword of the east - 6.19
greenback massacre - 4.27
7 by 7 - 5.21
out here we are - 6.19
angela andriod - 7.03
love in space - 4.52
lord of light - 4.57
paradox - 7.03
spirit of the age - 6.53
psi power - 6.58
hassan- i-sahba - 5.06

john-paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Mather" <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 5:35 PM
Subject: How to capture the Roadburn Festival webcast to disk


> On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 20:05 +0000, hawk lord wrote:
>
> > On behalf of Walter Hoeijmakers, the organisor of the Roadburn
Festivals,
> > I'm pleased to post the following:
> >
> > Hawkwind live at the 11th Roadburn Festival is available on
demand -here's
> > the
> > direct link to the on demand webcast:
> >
> > http://3voor12.vpro.nl/3voor12/player/audio.jsp?audionumber=28266607
> >
> > Dave Brock has remixed the recordings especially for the webcast -it's
74
> > minutes of
> > pure spacerock mayhem...
>
> I figured I'd better get around to listening to this because, in the
> past, I find they usually disappear by the time I eventually make a
> visit. :-)  Also, with that in mind, I thought I'd best save a copy of
> the webcast to disk in case it does eventually disappear.
>
> For those who might also want to do that (instead of fiddling with
> re-recording the output of their sound card, which might be noisy), here
> is what I did:
>
> I had a look at the Web page source to determine the URL of the stream.
> I ended up with this:
>
> "rtsp://streams.omroep.nl/vpro/28266607/surestream.rm?title=Hawkwind -
Roadburn 2006&author=Hawkwind"
>
> That discovered, it was a simple matter to use mplayer to save the
> stream to disk:
>
> mplayer
'rtsp://streams.omroep.nl/vpro/28266607/surestream.rm?title=Hawkwind -
Roadburn 2006&author=Hawkwind' -dumpstream -dumpfile
Hawkwind_Roadburn_2006.rm
>
> This gave me (after 74 minutes of streaming) a copy of the RealMedia
> webcast in the file Hawkwind_Roadburn_2006.rm.
>
> If you want to burn the RealMedia file to CD, you can also use mplayer
> to convert it to WAV to make that easier:
>
> mplayer Hawkwind_Roadburn_2006.rm -ao pcm:file=Hawkwind_Roadburn_2006.wav
>
> This uses the pcm disk audio output to create a WAV file in the file
> specified after "file=".
>
> You could then use audacity, CDWAV, or some other WAV audio editor to
> split this up into separate tracks for burning.  Alternatively, you
> could author a CUE sheet and use something like cdrdao to burn the
> single large WAV file as separate audio tracks to CD.
>
> (To that end, if anyone has gone to the bother of splitting this up into
> separate tracks, would you let me know the mm:ss:ff lengths of your
> tracks, or otherwise where you placed the split points.  That would make
> it much easier for me to author a CUE file to split up the webcast into
> separate tracks. [I can use shntool to do the actual splitting.])
>
> Mplayer is available as open source for Unix systems.  I believe there
> is also a port to MS-Windows.  You might also be able to use VLC to
> play/record the stream, as it understands the RTSP protocol.
>
> > Enjoy it!
>
> I am!  Many thanks to the band for allowing this to be streamed!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
> -- 
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>  deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>         --- Frank Vincent Zappa
>



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