[CLUE-Tech] Capturing realaudio streams

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 21:50, Art Reisman wrote:
> Anyway I have had on my mind for quite a while doing a
> project that would allow you to capture any music
> stream and put it into a file of your choice. Basiclly
> if you can play it on a sound card on your system you
> can capture it..Here is how it can be done.

http://freedesktop.org/~gstreamer/

Look at the gst-editor - its essentially a drag and drop (not exactly,
but close enough) tool for building an audio or video stream.  I played
with it yesterday to see how easy it was - I built a simple cd player by
creating a cdparanoia "source" and an esd "sink".  The editor even plays
the stream you build.

My goal is to use this to build a stream of audio from my XMPCR (XM
Radio) into a network stream piped through a ssh tunnel to work so I can
listen to my radio, set up at home, at work.  I wrote a UI in GTK+ to
manage the radio via the OpenXM daemon, so I should be able to use the
UI at work and control the daemon (and the audio stream) at home.

gstreamer can hijack the audio stream from the audio card and redirect
it to a network stream (UDP or TCP).  Very cool stuff.
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