How to capture the Roadburn Festival webcast to disk

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 22 May 2006, at 17:35, Paul Mather wrote:
> 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.

Mplayer exists for OS X, but my hasty attempts to find an install  
something only coughed up GUI-oriented versions which were very  
pretty, but they didn't seem to give me the level of control that the  
command-line version would, and I couldn't get them to dump me the  
stream.  Doubtless one could compile the source as was does for  
Linux, but I don't have all the Dev tools installed (and, I think,  
probably don't have room on my drive for all those!)

VLC offered much better control through its GUI, but I think the  
problem was that it (or my installation) doesn't have a codec to  
handle .rm files, so I didn't quite make it there, either.

If anyone has a better idea about how to catch the straight .rm file,  
or how to capture it from OS X, do let me know :)  I heard a 10 or 15  
minutes of the stream whilst furtling about, and it sounds really  
very good, but there's no way I'll ever have a chance to sit down at  
home and listen to all 74 minutes at a go!

Cheers,
Carl

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