[MPlayer-users] Re: playing while dumping a mp3 stream

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Some months ago this subject was posted here:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user/38172/match=recording+and+playing 
> 
> 
> It offered 2 ways of doing this:
> 
>  > mkfifo stream.dump
>  > mplayer -dumpstream <url>
>  > cat stream.dump | tee SavedStream.wmv | mplayer -
> 
> and
> 
> mplayer -nortc -really-quiet -dumpstream <url>
> tail -f stream.dump | mplayer -
> 
> However, either method does not play but produces:
> Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
> Seek failed
> 
> Has anybody actually dumped a mp3 stream and listened to it at the same 
> time?

Everybody knew this already except me, apparently!
Itś very simple, don't need tail, nor fifo. Just dump the stream and 
play it with sox!

mplayer -ao pcm -aofile /mplayer.wav -cache 1000 -vc null -vo null 
http://128.125.204.54:2345/kuscaudio.mp3

I do that in the background.
Then anyplace:
play /mplayer.wav

Voilá: playing and recording at the same time.

H
PS. Very nice classical station... the best.