[MPlayer-users] running mplayer on Amazon EC2

[Jan Knutar]

On Friday 01 May 2009, missivestoadrian-vxml at yahoo.com wrote:

> MU="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/confcall/streetevents/SIG=131tgurf
>o/*http%3a//web.servicebureau.net/conf/meta?i=1113094921&c=2343&m=was&
>u=/w_ccbn.xsl&date_ticker=MU"
>
> mplayer  -nocache -srate 16000 -playlist ${MU} -ao pcm:file=tmp.wav
> -vo null -vc null

If you don't need to re-encode it to raw pcm, maybe just mplayer -
dumpstream -playlist ${MU} would do it?