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



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....

Had a look now.

The BBC have changed the radio player such that now the link which is
"Listen on standalone radio player" is gone. Now, when you access

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio2_aod.shtml?radio2/r2_wogan_tue.ram

Using, say wget, you don't actually get a RealAudo .ram file, you get an
html file:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head lang="en">
<title>BBC Radio Player - Radio 2</title>
<script src="/radio/aod/javascript/framescheck.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
[snip - this goes on for another page or so.]

So, that stuffs up my script. I need to work out how to get the actual
ram file, which is a file containing a line which looks like this:

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/arts/saturday_play.ra?BBC-UID=9406be7559c9b32a4d388c7880109da599c54eb5805031d4140fb0e2dc38380b_n&SSO2-UID=

Which actually specifies the path to the audio data stream.

So, I don't have a fix now, and I need to get on with some work... can
anyone else find the real location of the ram files on the BBC site???

Seb


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