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Pete Fenelon wrote:
> In uk.media.radio.misc Tony Green <tony@beermad.clothing.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>>vsound (http://www.xenoclast.org/vsound/) is supposed to be able to 
>>intercept incoming audio streams so you can process them digitally 
>>rather than as analogue output from your soundcard (and avoid using the 
>>soundcard - handy if you want to do two things at once) but I've never 
>>managed to make it work.
> 
> 
> I pulled this down and applied the 0.5.5 patch and it works fine - been
> experiemnting capturing bits of BBC7 and 6music - and knocked up a
> little shellscript wrapper round realplayer so by default it records
> each grab to a uniquely-named WAV file. Nice piece of kit - ta for
> the pointer.
> 

Success! I was missing the -t flag.

That'll be some changes to my time-shifting scripts (first time in 10 
years of using Unix that I've ever used the "at" command :-) )

Here's a code snippet to save disc space by saving the file as Ogg Vorbis:

vsound -s -t /usr/bin/trplayer -q -t 0:30:0 \
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/realplayer/media/fmg2.ram  | sox -t au - \
-t wav -  | oggenc - -q 0 -o /tmp/test.ogg

Replace oggenc with your favourite encoder if you want MP3 or something 
else :-)

I'm using the text version of realplayer (trplayer - 
http://www.linux-speakup.org/trplayer.html) because not needing to 
launch a GUI, it saves any problems with the display when run as a cron 
or at job. (the -t 0:1:0 allows you to tell it to run for a specific 
length of time - HH:MM:SS - which is also a bonus for timeshifting.)

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