On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Jason Holt wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Ross Werner wrote: > > 1) Trying to use mencoder on any sort of audio-only file segfaults, > > whether it's an mp3 or my stream.dump file. > > Use mplayer instead: > > $ mplayer -ao pcm -aofile foo.wav -ss 1234 -endpos 30 bar.asf > > If you're clever, you can probably even figure out how to pipe it into oggenc.
That worked beautifully (except for the "-endpos" switch which apparently, for whatever reason, isn't built into mplayer ... ctrl-C works pretty well though :-) > Incidentally, a tivo-like database of what radio stations play what songs when > might make a *very* interesting project. You'd capture a number of streams > continuously, and then the database would let your software automatically > extract the songs you want. I think it'd be really difficult to get a TV-schedule type listing of when which radios play what ... most radio stations don't publish such listings, afaik. ~ ross -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
