[MPlayer-users] encoding realplayer audio only streams to mp3

[Kevin DeKorte]

On Wednesday 27 July 2005 12:12 pm, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 July 2005 at 20:08, Nigel Jenkins wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm trying to work out if there is a one pass way of recording a
> > realaudio stream (off the web) into a mp3 file.
> >
> > I've currently worked out I can stream the file and output it as a wave
> > file using the following command:
> >
> >   mplayer rtsp://someserver/somefile.ra -ao pcm
> >
> > Then I can use lame to encode to mp3.
> >
> > What I'd like to do is something like:
> >
> >   mplayer rtsp://someserver/somefile.ra -ao mp3
> >
> > and encode directly to mp3 format.
>
> Well, there isn't and probably won't be something like that in MPlayer.
> But you can use a fifo and encode directly from -ao pcm.
> There are numerous examples all over this mailing list.
>

Here is an example I use to convert an mms stream to mp3. Probably would work 
for an rtsp as well.

more mms2mp3
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mplayer -ao pcm -aofile $2.pcm -vo null -cache 2048 "$1"
lame $2.pcm $2.mp3
rm $2.pcm
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Kevin

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