I'm using Ubuntu5.10 and have installed RealPlayer10.

I would like to save an audio stream playing through RealPlayer10 to a file.

I'm guessing I should be able to do it with aplay.

But I can't find any documentation that describes all the controls in alsamixer: PCM, LFE, IEC958, Aux, ... ??

Which do I switch on, and which do I switch off, and do I need to do something with 'external' or 'downmix'.

I don't understand any of these terms.
I've been searching for answers now for about two and a half hours.
No luck.

Anybody...?

Thanks
Al

vlc, but you'll need to set it up to do that... which is a learning curve that will take more than 2 hours possibly.

if your in a hurry-- (duh) output your speakers to the input on your soundcard, then pipe it: /dev/dsp > /home/user/Desktop/my-riaa-protest-song.mp3 lol

Thanks, halvy

I'll take a look at it though.
[edit]
Just seen: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html
"Input formats: Real: Linux: No"
[edit]

I did think of doing that but was concerned about a possible impedance mis-match between the speaker and microphone sockets of my sound card (onboard).

So what you're saying is, take a sound cable, plug one end in the speaker socket of the sound card, and the other end in the microphone socket. Then do the pipe.

Is this just an idea or have you done it before?

Is there any chance I might fry my sound chip!?

Alan

as far as vlc or any other mixer type program, it shouldn't make any difference if your taking raw sound (whether it's from real or not) and saving/converting it to mp3.

as far as the souncard trick, obviously you would want to not turn up the sound as if you were listening to 500 watt speakers.

i'd either double check my specs on what the soundcard can handle in terms of watts (power) or put a cheapo in there and just play with it.

lettuce know..

you may also want to pipe it directly from /dev/dsp > ... instead of the cable thingy.

if you do decide to use the cable trick, make sure your onboard card is disconnected either via bios or on your mobo.

Can mplayer play it? If so, use|

mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile targetfile myrealstream

you might need to add -playlist there.

I'm doing it with audacity as you can read in this thread

Hi Everyone

Thanks for all your replies.

SOLVED!!

It was a problem with alsamixer:
Somehow I had changed 'Input Source Select' from 'Input 1' to 'Input 2'. Changing it back to 'Input 1' allowed me to record from RealPlayer10 (and from a microphone).

Still don't understand the alsamixer settings, but at least it works now

Audacity is brilliant. And, by making a symbolic link:

I am also able to 'Export as mp3...'.

Thanks again
Alan