Recording a broadcast.

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 12 April 2007, Till Maas wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > BBC Radio 4, last evening, broadcast a half-hour program about OSS.
> >
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/z9ksy/
> >
> > I'd like to record this, to listen again later.  I'm sure it can be done,
> > but
> > this is new to me.  What do I need to do this?  Thanks
>
> The following (all in one line) should work and store the stream in the
> file radio.ra:
>
> $ mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile radio.ra
> rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/science/sci9_wed.ra
>
> The url is written in
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio4/opensource.ram which is
> the link named "Listen using stand-alone Real Player"
>
> You may need mplayer from livna or freshrpms or somewhere if you do not
> have it already.
>
I do so like an elegant solution :-)  Nothing new to download and install.  
Great stuff.  I've now got a file which appears to be only 9.6MB, and plays 
beautifully in realplayer.

Thanks to all who answered.

Anne