From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 25 21:12:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A08B16A4DD for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:12:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reitz@eecs.cwru.edu) Received: from beta.eecs.cwru.edu (beta.EECS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.150.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA5D43D72 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:12:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reitz@eecs.cwru.edu) Received: from brak ([::ffff:129.22.151.63]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,168bits,DES-CBC3-SHA) by beta.eecs.cwru.edu with esmtp; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:12:08 -0400 id 000AC0EB.44C68928.00004C74 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:11:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Reitz X-X-Sender: reitz@brak To: Lars Eighner In-Reply-To: <20060725160111.V22288@goodwill.io.com> Message-ID: References: <20060725201655.GA53556@thought.org> <20060725160111.V22288@goodwill.io.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: any audio wizards know howto store *.smil files? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:12:09 -0000 On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > Is there a way of saving *.[ra|ram|smil] or any real audio > > type files locally? I've poked around and haven't found any > > means of saving real* stuff. > > If mplayer will play it, you can (probably) dump it with > -dumpaudio -dumpfile > > dumpfile defaults to ./stream.dump Actually, I tend to use the '-dumpstream' parameter instead of '-dumpaudio', because that will get both audio and video. If all you want is the audio part, however, then by all means go with '-dumpaudio'. I'm not sure if mplayer can parse smil files. If you can't get that to work, then just download the smil file (it is just a small text file), and pick out the URLs for the media files, and hand those to mplayer. For example, I just pulled this smil file from NPR:

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