At Thu, 09 Oct 2003 14:13:55 -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Gavin Hamill wrote:
[...] > > Since mplayer can play realmedia (it may need you to install > > the binary realplayer for some of the very new formats, but > > I'm unsure on this point), it can also send the output to a > > file... try something like > > > > $ mplayer proprietary.rm -oa pcm -oafile=open.wav I think that should read: $ mplayer proprietary.rm -ao pcm -aofile open.wav [...] > How do you do that for video files? Use the companion mencoder program. The command would be something like: mencoder -oac [some_audio_codec] -ovc [some_video_codec] \ proprietary.rm -o less_proprietary.codec > My school does some courses over the web with streaming video > (WMV, of course). After the class session they make the whole > WMV video available as a download. I've been burning them to > CD, but I hate to keep them in WMV format, I'd rather use an > open format. Speaking of which, what is a good open format for > video (preferably one that MPlayer supports since I already > have it). Open? WMV is an open format. Thanks to all those hackers working on projects like mplayer, xine and ffmpeg. Perhaps you mean a free, "you won't be threatened ever with a patent infringement suit" format? You might try checking out <http://www.theora.org/> and the Matroska (maybe google can spell-check that one for you ;-) project. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]