From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 08:29:16 2003 Return-Path: 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 3E0C516A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:29:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.pelleg.org (gw.pelleg.org [205.201.13.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08FD743F75 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:29:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daniel@pelleg.org) Received: from lank.here (lank.wburn [192.168.3.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "gw.pelleg.org", Issuer "Dan Pelleg" (verified OK)) by gw.pelleg.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 139C95A4E; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:29:12 -0500 (EST) Received: by lank.here (Postfix, from userid 7675) id 10994757; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:29:11 -0500 (EST) To: Joan Picanyol i Puig References: <20031112090957.GA37953@grummit.biaix.org> <20031112153636.GA60592@grummit.biaix.org> From: Dan Pelleg Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:29:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20031112153636.GA60592@grummit.biaix.org> (Joan Picanyol i. Puig's message of "Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:36:36 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: converting real media audio X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:29:16 -0000 Joan Picanyol i Puig writes: > [please honour, Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] > > * Dan Pelleg [20031112 15:12]: >> Joan Picanyol writes: >> > [please honour Mail-Followup-To:, not subscribed] >> > I've found two speeches in Real Audio format I'd like to burn on a CD. >> > I'm able to reproduce them fine with linux-reaplayer, but sox doesn't >> > understand the format. What's the one liner to dump what is sounding on >> > my speakers to a file sox can convert (which device shoud I cat?)? Is >> > there some utility to convert from .rm files to .wav? >> Run realplayer under linux-vsound (in the ports). > Thanks for the tip, however it doesn't quite work: > > (16:24:25 <~>) 0 $ vsound -f appel.wav > /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /home/pub/25/Audio/appel\[1\].rm > Missing file ./vsound61809.au. > This means that the libvsound wrapper did not work correctlty. A > possible reason is that the program you are trying to run is > setuid. In this case you will need to run vsound as root. > (16:24:51 <~>) 0 $ sudo vsound -f appel.wav > /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /home/pub/25/Audio/appel\[1\].rm > Missing file ./vsound62032.au. > This means that the libvsound wrapper did not work correctlty. A > possible reason is that the program you are trying to run is > setuid. In this case you will need to run vsound as root. > (16:27:22 <~>) 0 $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1247004 Nov 5 17:16 > /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay > > What am I doing wrong? > My notes (for streaming media) have the -d and -s switches. My guess is what you actually need is just the -d. -- Dan Pelleg