[ILUG] the mplayer thread revisited

[Justin Mason]

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Frank Duignan writes:
> Sean, all, 
> this is my current attempt at solving the problem. The downside is 
> that it requires to be run on a logged in workstation that's running X.
> #########################
> vsound realplay lyric_new.smil &
> sleep 30
> killall realplay.bin
> #########################
> vsound grabs the audio output from realplay and dumps it to
> a wav file called vsound.wav (this can be converted to mp3 using lame if 
> need be)
> lyric_new.smil is taken from the rte web site ("save link as" on the listen 
> live icon)
> The upshot of the above is that about 30 seconds (minus buffering) of audio 
> is grabbed.
> Scheduling this to run for a particular program should be fairly 
> straightforward. 
> A text mode version that could be run as a cron job would be much better.

Frank --

as a matter of interest, have you tried mplayer?  The subject line
suggests it, but indications are that it didn't work, and I'm curious as
to why.

It may need to be recompiled by hand with the realplayer .so's, but
mplayer can indeed support the SMIL and Real protocols -- and is much
better at dealing with a "no-X" environment.

See in particular: mplayer -dumpstream

BTW trplayer is a dead end -- the author(s) no longer maintain it,
and Real have revved the protocols since then, so I really doubt
it'll work.

- --j.
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