[lug] Converting RealAudio to MP3

[Chip Atkinson]

Hi.

I just tried something like this and only succeed in capturing nothing but
quiet.  Eventually I just tried
cat /dev/dsp > dspstuff 

od -xc just shows 
0000000 8080 8080 8080 8080 8080 8080 8080 8080
        200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200
etc.

Any ideas why you can do this and I can't?  I tried /dev/audio and
/dev/dsp as myself and /dev/dsp as root with the same results.

Thanks in advance!

Chip

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Tony Dyson wrote:

> The following command captures the output of my soundcard & encodes it 
> as an mp3. I use it to record BBC RealAudio streams from RealPlayer 10 / 
> Linux. The first parameter is the encoding bitrate & the second the 
> filename.
> 
> sox -t ossdsp -w -s -r 44100 -c 2 /dev/dsp -t raw - | lame --verbose 
> --clipdetect -x -q 2 -b $1 -m s - ./$2.mp3
> 
> 
> Tom Hall wrote:
> > I'd like to thank whoever it was who told me at the last meeting
> > to "check again" for a way to convert RealAudio files to MP3.
> > 
> > I found this:
> > 
> >    http://ozzmosis.sensationcontent.com/realaudio.html
> > 
> > and except for having to use Windows, it works great !
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