From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 00:31:34 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 9B4FD16A4DA for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:31:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D936C43D49 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:31:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k6Q0VREi054422; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:31:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k6Q0VPxf054421; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:31:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:31:24 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Andy Reitz Message-ID: <20060726003124.GC53708@thought.org> References: <20060725201655.GA53556@thought.org> <20060725160111.V22288@goodwill.io.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Lars Eighner , FreeBSD Mailing List , Gary Kline 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: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:31:34 -0000 On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 05:11:36PM -0400, Andy Reitz wrote: > 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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