Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 19:13, Roberto Sanchez wrote: $ mplayer proprietary.rm -oa pcm -oafile=open.wav Slight bugfix, I think that last command should be '-oafile open.wav' without the = sign. How do you do that for video files? 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). I've not tried this with video files, but I'd expect you need to use mencoder - that will usually output an .AVI container, although I think you can tell it to write MPEG-1 program streams, too. As for the best 'open' codec format, you're probably more likely to get better platform coverage by storing them as MPEG4 with an .AVI container AKA 'DivX' since they can then be played by just about any platform, and even some standalone DVD players (like the KiSS ones, for example) This is hardly an 'open' solution, but more likely to be able to be played back on any modern OS. Cheers, Gavin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???
Ryan Nowakowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:10:09:00:47:57-0500] scribed: On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:22:40PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: I am constantly receiving realaudio files, and I want to listen to them; but, I do not want to install non-free programs on my system. Is there some way to convert these audio files to some other format, preferably by CLI? Check out vsound. Cool -- but, it still requires realplayer, which is what I am avoiding ; Other ideas? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???
Michael D Schleif wrote: I am constantly receiving realaudio files, and I want to listen to them; but, I do not want to install non-free programs on my system. Is there some way to convert these audio files to some other format, preferably by CLI? mplayer can play realplayer files (I guess that audio too). I'm not sure about converting them though... Bye -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???
Haim Ashkenazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:10:09:16:13:15+0200] scribed: Michael D Schleif wrote: I am constantly receiving realaudio files, and I want to listen to them; but, I do not want to install non-free programs on my system. Is there some way to convert these audio files to some other format, preferably by CLI? mplayer can play realplayer files (I guess that audio too). I'm not sure about converting them though... Where do I get mplayer? Is it `free'? If so, why is it not in any of my may sources? What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:07:40AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: Where do I get mplayer? deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main Is it `free'? Let's not reopen it on this list. Ask google about debian and mplayer. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???
Dave Carrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:10:09:08:12:11-0700] scribed: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:07:40AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: Where do I get mplayer? deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main Is it `free'? Let's not reopen it on this list. Ask google about debian and mplayer. I'll take that as a `NO' . . . -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???
mplayer can play realplayer files (I guess that audio too). I'm not sure about converting them though... 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 If it turns out you need the realplayer, you can apt-get install realplayer (from the deb repository at marillat.free.fr) and this will unpack the binary installer for you and install it in a more Debian-centric way :) Cheers, Gavin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???
Michael D Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Carrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:10:09:08:12:11-0700] scribed: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:07:40AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: Where do I get mplayer? deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main Is it `free'? Let's not reopen it on this list. Ask google about debian and mplayer. I'll take that as a `NO' . . . Being discussed on -legal right now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???
Gavin Hamill wrote: mplayer can play realplayer files (I guess that audio too). I'm not sure about converting them though... 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 If it turns out you need the realplayer, you can apt-get install realplayer (from the deb repository at marillat.free.fr) and this will unpack the binary installer for you and install it in a more Debian-centric way :) Cheers, Gavin. How do you do that for video files? 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). -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???
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]
Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???
csj wrote: 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. Good point. I did mean free 8) -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???
Check out vsound. On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:22:40PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: I am constantly receiving realaudio files, and I want to listen to them; but, I do not want to install non-free programs on my system. Is there some way to convert these audio files to some other format, preferably by CLI? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
