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Saving Ram Streams with Linux

February 26th, 2006

Went on a shareware bender trying to save streaming .ram files on Windows, proved shockingly easy on Linux–Ubuntu to be specific.

  1. Install mplayer
  2. Go into home directory
  3. Plonk this command in:

mplayer -playlist http://www.example.com/example.ram -ao pcm:waveheader pcm:file=example.wav -vc dummy -vo null

Filed under: Linux by Alex at 9:11 pm | Trackback

6 Responses to “Saving Ram Streams with Linux”

  1. Aranil Says:
    February 27th, 2006 at 7:58 pm

    you know too much- it’s awesome.

  2. Alex Says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 11:44 am

    I write about things I know a lot, I’m a shameless self-publicist ;)

  3. Aranil Says:
    March 3rd, 2006 at 8:21 pm

    niiiiice

  4. Alex Says:
    March 5th, 2006 at 11:16 am

    lol

  5. Tim Says:
    April 1st, 2007 at 11:09 pm

    For google people: This won’t save it compressed (which sucks).

    Here’s how to save it as a rm file (i.e. unmodified). Very useful for BBC listen again streams - just copy the “Listen in an external player” link, and then in a console (for example):

    mplayer -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio4/markthomas_crime.ram -dumpstream -dumpfile markthomas_crime.rm

    Might make a simple wrapper GUI for this.

  6. Alex Says:
    April 2nd, 2007 at 5:21 pm

    Thanks for the extra information Tim.