From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 25 21:00:02 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 40A0416A4EC for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:00:02 +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 E95CD43D5C for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:59:51 +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 k6PKxcpf053765; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:59:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k6PKxaqf053764; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:59:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:59:35 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Andy Reitz Message-ID: <20060725205935.GA53708@thought.org> References: <20060725201655.GA53556@thought.org> 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: 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 21:00:02 -0000 On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 04:28:23PM -0400, Andy Reitz 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. > > Hi Gary, > > I think you might be able to convince mplayer to do it, depending on the > transport that the streaming server is using. > > HTH, > -Andy. > Be nice. mplayer is the ultimate zoo to use, so can you suggested a commmon-line string to help me? Maybe like % mplayer -s http://www.npr.org/X/Y/Z/foo789.smil or something like that? gary (There may be other transports protocols, but I sure don't know about them!) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix