how do I download a real audio stream?

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Hi,

On its website (http://www.un.org/webcast/ga/61/gastatement20.shtml) The UN offers video streams of each representative speaking at the 61st General Assembly in real audio format. Since I have only dial-up, I really cannot watch that stuff live. I want to download some speeches and watch them comfortably.

Here is, for example, the link to Hugo Chavez' speech:

http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/ga/61/ga060920am.rm?start=01:02:20&end=01:26:10

Is there an application which allows me to download and save such a real audio stream?

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Hi there again my friend.I

Submitted by anticapitalista on Fri, 2006-09-22 17:48.

Hi there again my friend.

I use wget and mplayer for this, though the process is a little bit complicated.
Once you have the link, do this in a console eg

wget http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/ga/61/ga060920am.rm?start=01:02:20&end=01:26:10

This should create a file in your /home directory after a couple of seconds.
Open that file with a text editor, and then copy the line to another terminal (after closing the first) to read

mplayer -dumpstream rtsp://157.150.195.57:554/ga/61/ga060920am.rm?start=01:02:20&cloakport=80,554,7070

This will create a file called dump.stream and when finished can be renamed Chavezspeech.rm

edit: If that was all Greek to you (lol) have a look at this link:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_Streams_With_MPlayer

Good luck,

anticapitalista

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Evkharistopoly my good

Submitted by vees on Fri, 2006-09-22 18:34.

Evkharistopoly my good friend.

Thanks for the tip. Looks like a good way to do it, but frankly, I rather stay clear from non-free aps (-: you know the hard time I gave mepis over that :-). Do you have any solution which does not involve mplayer?

(Did you get my email?)

Cheers,

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Couldn't you just download

Submitted by losalamos on Fri, 2006-09-22 20:34.

Couldn't you just download realplayer for Linux? I guess if you absolutely won't use non-free apps, it might be hard for you to do what you want to do.

Maybe streambox, streamripper?

Submitted by anticapitalista on Sat, 2006-09-23 02:24.

Parakalo, Vees, and I got your email, I'll send the stuff on Monday.

I don't know of alternative ways to do this without mplayer. You might be lucky in that wget will extract the stream for you (it does on some sites), but I have found that mplayer is needed as the stream address is 'encrypted' into the http address.

Have a look at these, they use flashgot/streambox or streamripper

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

http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/

anticapitalista

"Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it."

Re: how do I download a real audio stream?

Submitted by annajennifer on Thu, 2008-11-13 01:19.

So, in order to download the radio broadcast, or whatever you are after, download the file which, by clicking on it, opens your real audio player. In most of the cases, it's a .ram file. Now open the file with a simple text editor. There should be a link to a .rm file. Copy that link into the address bar of your browser and hit RETURN. Your download should start right on. BUT... this method is only working with links like http://...music.rm, a web browser can't download files like rtsp://...music.rm .

To download a file via the rstp protocol, one needs additional software. The "best" tools for this task are Flashget and Streambox VCR.
I recommend Flashgot, if something doesn't work then you might try VCR Streambox.
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