Ripping Streams Directly to mp3?

Ripping Streams Directly to mp3?

[Hart Larry]

This has been chalenging for several years.  I am useing  a script which uses 
mencoder to rip video to an avi  and audio streams to a wave.  Sure the 
finished product plays nicely, but since its in .wav formatif that wave file 
runs more than 3hours, lame will not handle it, won't even know its there.
So, in reality on May 06 I want to record the stream of Sky-News during British 
Elections, directly to an mp3.  Mp3 is the final format I keep most of my audio 
news-coverage in.  In mp3 I can record many more hours of:
mms://live2.wm.skynews.servecast.net/skynews_wmlz_audio
Can some1 please suggest a direct way of doing this without making waves.  I am 
still in FC9
Thanks so much in advance
Hart

Re: Ripping Streams Directly to mp3?

[Rudy Vener]

lame can  compress  directly from the standard input to the standard output
e.g.
	      cat inputfile | lame -r -m m -b 24 --resample 22.05 - - > output

so create a script called stream2mp3 liks so:
	      lame -r -m m -b 24 --resample 22.05 - - 

then call your streaming process pipe it to stream2mp3 and redirect 
to your output.mp3 file.

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:07:16PM -0700, Hart Larry wrote:
> This has been chalenging for several years.  I am useing  a script which 
> uses mencoder to rip video to an avi  and audio streams to a wave.  Sure 
> the finished product plays nicely, but since its in .wav formatif that 
> wave file runs more than 3hours, lame will not handle it, won't even know 
> its there.
> So, in reality on May 06 I want to record the stream of Sky-News during 
> British Elections, directly to an mp3.  Mp3 is the final format I keep 
> most of my audio news-coverage in.  In mp3 I can record many more hours 
> of:
> mms://live2.wm.skynews.servecast.net/skynews_wmlz_audio
> Can some1 please suggest a direct way of doing this without making waves. 
>  I am still in FC9
> Thanks so much in advance
> Hart
>
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Re: Ripping Streams Directly to mp3?

[Geoff Shang]

Hi,

I'm running MPlayer from the Debian package which doesn't include mencoder 
for some silly reason.  So I can't test this suggestion.

Couldn't you do:

mencoder <url> -o <filename>.mp3

You may need to use options like "-of rawaudio" and "-oac mp3lame", and 
you'll probably want to use "-lameopts" to specify MP3 encoder options 
("-lameopts help" apparently gives you help).

Possible example:

mencoder -of rawaudio -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 <url> -o 
<filename.mp3>

Like I say, i'm not in a position to test this, I've just looked at the 
very comprehensive and sometimes daunting MPlayer man page.  Search for 
"GENERAL ENCODING OPTIONS" to get to the mencoder stuff.

Curious to know how you get on.

Geoff.