Ripping Real Audio streams

silentbob · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 159 Location: UK

I would like to be able to play & record to mp3 / ogg the Real Audio streams from the BBC Radio 1 listen again feature. This is so that I can stream the excellent Essential Mixes and save them to disk so that I can listen again since the shows are only available online for 1 week after broadcast.

How do I go about this and what software do I need to emerge? I've found some useful links below and via searching the forums. I just want to know the simplest way to get this working.

Real Player 10: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=205874&start=25
Real Audio Ripping with Esound:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=42561

Windows guide: http://swen.antville.org/stories/735413/

(Btw paid my £120 BBC license fee so it's all legit!)

TenPin · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2002 Posts: 500 Location: Kansas City

mplayer -cache 128 -dumpstream -dumpfile filename.rm rtsp://blah

I tried it the other day with mplayer-1_pre5 and it works perfectly.

Then you don't even need to re-encode the stream unless you really have to use your favorite music player instead of mplayer.
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silentbob · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 159 Location: UK

I'm trying to install Real Player, following this excellent HOWTO, but I've run into a problem with the emerge!

silentbob · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 159 Location: UK

Update: Real Player 10 is now installed, yay! So I can now play the Radio 1 streams and it even works in Firefox... I am a happy boy! (even happier when I work out how to record the streams to disk).
Edit: Forgot you need to download the ebuild since it's not in portage yet due to licensing issues.
HOWTO: http://www.slashdotdash.net/Articles/Linux/Gentoo/Audio/RealAudio/InstallRealPlayer10/

How I did it (all portage actions as root)...

1. Get the Real Player 10 ebuild (see bugzilla)

monkman · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 8:46 pm Post subject:

audacity

works fine but as said here before, you save the recorded stream as wav or ogg..... but you can normalize and edit the recorded stream as needed...

beandog · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 9:33 pm Post subject:

silentbob · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 159 Location: UK

I can't get mplayer to open Real Audio streams, I guess it's a plugin issue and I need to symlink the new Real Audio 10 libraries?

Anyway, my search has come across vsound which is a "A Virtual Audio Loopback Cable" and allows the recording (and simultaneous playback) of any audio stream. It seems to work nicely, apart from needing to save the temporary data to an AU format then converting it to WAV on completion. I would prefer to be able to pipe it to lame / oggc to convert it without storing the huge WAV data.

smolshellz · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2

hi
i used to decode realaudio with vsound.
after installing realplayer 10 vsound complains about:
/usr/bin/vsound: line 163: "http://somelocation/somefile.ram" : No such file or directory
Missing file ./vsound6262.au.

this does not happen when i use realplayer 8 ???
someone got an idea?
thx

Wi1d · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:54 am Post subject:

silentbob · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 159 Location: UK

hmm, vsound works perfectly for me under KDE after I kill artsd.

Wi1d · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:01 am Post subject:

Hey thanks. I was using version 0.5. Now I can totally get rid of realplayer 8

lynz_addict · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 54 Location: Singapore

Hi! It doesn't seem to get installed on my computer. I do all the steps. But, when I give the command for emerge, it doesn't find the realplayer-bin.

lynz_addict · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 54 Location: Singapore

oops! forgot to put
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/"
in /etc/make.conf.
After putting that, realplayer-bin was emerged. Now, I can use Realplayer 10.
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quickshiftin · Guru Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 345 Location: Denver, CO

does anyone know can i use realplayer w/o the gui? for instance if i have a system w/o X can i still use realplayer from the command line w/o it crashing?

seigen · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 15

At times i've used realplayer with a vncserver if I have one stream i'm listening to.

Basically, you put all the programs you want to start in the ~/.vnc/xstartup and then start the server from the command line with vncserver. This can of course be done from remotely through an ssh session. You can then simply kill the server when you want to kill realplayer, or you can get finer control by opening the vnc window on another computer. It could even be a windows computer.

Alternatively, you can possibly get mplayer to play the stream without needing X.

slackline · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:09 am Post subject: Re: Ripping Real Audio streams