On 2007-06-12, Jim Kissel wrote:
> In my case firefox has a player installed for wmv files and starts to
> play this stream in the browser. All I see is the tail end of a bbc
> weather forcast. Just the bbc weather logo and about 5 seconds of
> sound. Then nothing.
>
> wget doesn't get much.
>
> Can anyone up the ante with a better URL or an alternate method to
> view/download Click? (ubuntu 7.04 FF)
Below is my ~/bin/record-real-media script for recording realplayer
audio streams. I haven't tried video, but this might give you some
helpful ideas. (It gives mplayer the -noconsolecontrols and
-really-quiet options because I usually use it in an at job.)
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
##################################################
use strict ;
use Getopt::Std ;
use LWP::UserAgent ;
my ( %option ) ;
getopts("pvhna", \%option) ;
if ($option{h}) {
exec("perldoc " . $0) ; # exec terminates this script
}
else {
while (@ARGV) {
my $url = shift(@ARGV);
my $mplayer = mplayer_command($url);
run_command($mplayer);
if ($option{a}) {
my $normalize = normalize_command($mplayer);
run_command($normalize);
}
my $lame = lame_command($mplayer);
run_command($lame);
}
}
##################################################
##### END MAIN
##################################################
sub mplayer_command {
my $url = $_[0];
my $filename = time() ;
if ($url =~ /([^\/]+)$/) {
$filename = $1 ;
}
$filename .= ".wav" ;
my $command = "mplayer -noconsolecontrols -really-quiet -ao pcm:file=" .
$filename ;
if ( ($option{p}) || ($url =~ /\.r[ap]m$/) ) {
$command .= " -playlist ";
}
$command .= " \'" . $url . "\'" ;
return $command ;
}
sub lame_command {
my $input = $_[0] ;
print ("lame <- $input\n") if ($option{v}) ;
my $command = "echo \'no wav found\'" ;
if ( $input =~ /=(\S+)(\.wav)/ ) {
my $wav_file = $1 . $2 ;
my $mp3_file = $1 . ".mp3" ;
$command = "lame --quiet $wav_file $mp3_file" ;
}
return $command ;
}
sub normalize_command {
my $input = $_[0] ;
print ("normalize <- $input\n") if ($option{v}) ;
my $command = "echo \'no wav found\'" ;
if ( $input =~ /=(\S+)(\.wav)/ ) {
my $wav_file = $1 . $2 ;
$command = "normalize-audio -a 20dB $wav_file" ;
}
return $command ;
}
sub run_command {
my $command = $_[0];
print("CMD: $command\n");
system($command) unless ($option{n});
}
##################################################
=head1 Options
=over
=item -h
Print this help and quit.
=item -v
Increase verbosity.
=item -a
Normalize to -20dB.
=item -p
Force mplayer '-playlist' option (automatically used for *.ram and *.rpm files).
=item -n
Dry run.
=back
=cut
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