Is it possible to record a stream starting from a specific time in the stream, ending at some other time? What I mean is, you can use MPlayer to listen to an audio stream from a website, and record the stream to a file using the -dumpstream option. But this will record all the stream, from the very start till the end. What if I want to record starting say from minute 30 and ending in minute 50 for example? Can MPlayer do that? How can I do it?

If timing is not needed to be perfect then look for mp3record. It is a command that starts recording the pcm channel when you answer all the questions it ask then you esc when done.

Brian1

Check at the bottom of this link for scheduling your captures.

http://grimthing.com/archives/2004/0...-with-mplayer/

KC

I looked at the website you mentioned kencaz, but I am not sure how that setup will help me. I can start mplayer beforehand and leave it playing, but I see no way to start dumping sections of the stream after the playing has already started.

As I understand it, a script named streamrecorder, with lines like
#!/bin/sh

mplayer -playlist /home/username/scripts/playlist.txt -ao pcm -aofile /tmp/mystream.wav -vc dummy -vo null ;

used in Cron

05 06 * * 1-5 /home/username/scripts/ streamrecorder >& /dev/null

will start recording at 6:05, but it will open whatever URL is in the playlist file, and it will start dumping the stream into the file stream.wav since the beginning of the strem. This is what I do not want. I want to start the dumping the stream when say 35 minutes of streaming time have already passed. So it should start streaming first and then at some different time afterwards it should start the dumping. This is what I do not know how to make mplayer do.

Now, I tried mp3recorder as Brian suggested. It seems to be recording something and it generates an mp3 file. But when I try to listen to it, no sound is produced. It has some minutes of silent recording. Any clue of why it is doing that? Suggestions on how to fix it and make audio come out of it? I will appreciate your help a lot.

Hmmm, you may have to play with -cache and -dumpstream together but I don't know how you would time it the way you want though...

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/streaming.html

KC

Anyone knows what can be wrong with my mp3record that it seems to record, and it generates an mp3 file aparently with information on it, but when I play it, no audio comes out of it? I hear nothing! What is happening? what can I do?

I'll appreciate your help.

Are you using Fedora or SUSE. If so you may have to install .mp3 support. There may be some other Distro's involved in this copywrite stuff but these are two that I have heard that don't install with .mp3 support.

KC

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I am using RedHat 9.
This problem seems to be happening with mp3record only. I can for example convert files to mp3 using lame and that works fine, but mp3record does not seem to work :-S

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