Re: [Sheflug] GNU/Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site!

[Chris Warburton <chriswarbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 13:04 +0000, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> > I wrote a script to record listen again programs to ogg files. The
> > key thing is to have the RealAudio codecs installed, along with
> > mplayer and oggenc or lame (depending on whether you want mp3s or
> > oggs).
> >
> > More info here:
> >
> > http://www.esfnet.co.uk/index.php?page=Listen_Again
> 
> Hmmm... I've tried this and can't understand why it doesn't work....
> 
> 
> ./listenagain.sh  
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio2_aod.shtml?radio2/r2_wogan_tue.ram
> 
> the messages that come back are ...
> 
> ./listenagain.sh 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio2_aod.shtml?radio2/r2_wogan_tue.ram
> --11:53:40--  
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio2_aod.shtml?radio2/r2_wogan_tue.ram
>            => `radio2_aod.shtml?radio2%2Fr2_wogan_tue.ram.'
> Resolving www.bbc.co.uk... 212.58.253.70
> Connecting to www.bbc.co.uk|212.58.253.70|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: unspecified [text/html]
> 
>     [ <=>                                                 ] 
> 1,679         --.--K/s
> 
> 11:53:41 (24.21 MB/s) - `radio2_aod.shtml?radio2%2Fr2_wogan_tue.ram' 
> saved [1679]
> 
> 
> Which creates a 1.6Kb file with nothing in it.
> 
Have you tried Streamripper? It is in the Debian and Ubuntu archives
(I'm not too familiar with other distros) and I use it to download Real
files from the BBC. For instance, to watch the latest episode of Click I
would get the high quality Realplayer file from bbcworld.com/click
(which is actually just a text file with the stream location in it) then
run the command:

streamripper $(cat worl_click_011107_show_hi.rm)

That downloads the file to " - .mp3" in a folder Streamripper_rips (I
think), although it is in Real format, not MP3.

This should work for audio too, as long as the given file is a text
location of the stream.

If not then sorry for wasting your time :P

Chris


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