capturing streams with vlc

[Brian Tew]

Somebody asked about this a while back.
I just now tried it and captured a stream.
Amazing.

the following command works for me:
rvlc --quiet --novideo http://wwoz-wm.streamguys.com/wwoz --sout file/asf:wwoz.asf

rvlc is the command line version of vlc.
You would think it is cvlc, but you would be wrong.
In the above command the word file is not a variable to be replaced;
you use the actual word file.

asf is the muxer. you must replace that with whatever muxer your desired stream is using.
wwoz.asf is an arbitrary file name, but it must have the proper extension.

You can read about this in the howto at
http://wiki.vidiolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_Howto/Receive_And_Save_A_Stream

ack, the t in to should be capital T.
I love you but I am not gonna type that  all again.
Ask google like I did.

hth