How to capture the Roadburn Festival webcast to disk

[Paul Mather]

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 15:36 +0100, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

> On 23/05/2006 12:22, Paul Mather wrote:
> > I actually found that you can get rid of everything after the
> > "surestream.rm" part and it will still work.  In other words, use just
> > "rtsp://streams.omroep.nl/vpro/28266607/surestream.rm" as the stream
> > URL.
> 
> Yup, that seems to be working, too.  (My first go got interrupted, so I 
> had to restart anyway ....)
> 
> How big does the HW Roadburn .rm work out to be?  My instance of mplayer 
> doesn't seem to be counting out percentages to let me know how it's 
> doing, but the "Hawkwind_Roadburn_2006.rm" in its directory is dutifully 
> getting larger.  I'm capturing _something_ .... :)

Mine ended up at roughly 52 MB.

> (Some googling also suggested to me that the command-line version of 
> mplayer is buried deep within with the bundled .app (as I might have 
> guessed, really, if I hadn't been rushed), so I might have a go at that 
> back home, too.)

The version I built from the FreeBSD ports results in two binaries:
mplayer and gmplayer.  Mplayer is the command line version and gmplayer
is the GUI.  I use mplayer 99% of the time.

I think the problem you'll have on OS X is the availability of a
RealMedia codec that works with mplayer.  Hopefully, the free RealPlayer
library will be supported.

Cheers,

Paul.
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