[MPlayer-users] record

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 07:31:59PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Mack Johnson wrote:
> 
> >what command to use when recording .ram stream, while listening to
> >stream. i tried one command but you can't hear the music while it was
> >recrding. on os x
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to both play and record
> (i.e., dump to file) simultaneously with MPlayer. You're probably out of
> luck.

window 1: mplayer -dumpfile foo.ram -dumpstream [url]
window 2: tail -c 1000000000 -f foo.ram | mplayer -

There are other simpler ways too but I think this will prevent mplayer
from stopping on eof.

Rich