How to Capture Flash Streams - (Radio Stations)

[suvayu ali]

2009/5/15 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>
Actually its /tmp/Flash*

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