[MPlayer-users] Restreaming only audio with mencoder/mplayer

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 04:57:43PM -0500, Jean-Francois Beaumont wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> For you information, if you want to connect to a Windows Media
> Encoder 9 broadcast with an output set to "pull from the encoder", what
> you have to do is:
>  
> mplayer "mms://hostname"
> you should use a small cache value, something like that will work in a LAN: mplayer "mms://hostname" -cache 40
>  
> I am trying to take a stream which I can hear in mplayer to stream it
> again in a different format. The input format is as follow:
>  
> ============ ASF Stream group == START ===
>  object size = 38
>  stream count=[0x2][2]
>    stream id=[0x1][1]
>    max bitrate=[0x88b3][34995]
>    stream id=[0x2][2]
>    max bitrate=[0x3df0f][253711]
> ============ ASF Stream group == END ===
>  
> What i want to do is to take only the audio from the stream and to
> connect to a server port (via tcpip) that will store the file in raw PCM
> format (16khz, 16bits, signed)
>  
> Is this doable with mencoder or mplayer? At least, I would like to have
> the correct stream format (pcm, raw, etc.) in the standard output which
> i could redirect to somewhere else with a script of some kind.
>  
> Thanks!

Use -ao pcm and point -aofile to a fifo.

Rich