How to Capture Flash Streams - (Radio Stations)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 21:49 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I used to record (time-shift) some radio programs over the web using mmsrip 
> and mplayer (for MMS/ASF streams) but now one of my local radio stations 
> switched to a Flash stream.  Here is the current URL:
> 
> http://player.streamtheworld.com/_players/univision/?callsign=WKAQAM 
> 
> I can play this (perfectly fine) using my browser but I'm wondering if anyone 
> knows of a command-line tool that could play/grab these kind of streams? That 
> way I could automate the process and schedule the recordings just like I used 
> to do with mmsrip/mplayer thru cron.

Try looking for *.flv in /tmp. Hard link the name to something else so
the file doesn't go away when the stream finishes.

poc