realrekord

Real Rekord

Real Rekord is a KDE programme which helps you record and capture audio streams from Real Player using GNU/Linux.

Download http://jriddell.org/programs/realrekord-0.9-jr3.tar.bz2

Compiling

uncompress, configure, make, make install

For configure make sure you set --prefix= to the output from `kde-config --prefix` (usually /usr or /opt/kde3)

About

Realrekord is by Thanassis Misaridis (who I havn't been able to contact).

It lets you record realaudio/realplayer streams by using vsound 0.5 (sits between program and /dev/dsp) and sox (converts audio file formats).

This version has an updated build for KDE 3.2 (probably works with KDE 3.1).

CVS Version

Realrekord is now in KDE's CVS in the kdenonbeta module.
Mailing list: http://lists.quaker.eu.org/mailman/listinfo/realrekord-devel

TODO

There's plenty of improvements to be made to make this useable.

Are there other ways to record realplayer streams? mencoder seems to demand a stream with video but surely it can be persuaded. Maybe running realplayer through artsdsp and recording from Arts (krec can do this, krec isn't very useable however). Recording with xine doesn't work because the xine people are scared or real and stopped it, mplayer does however: mplayer -ao pcm -aofile recorded.wav rtsp://example.com/mystream.ra
Remove compiler warnings
Needs to be run as root on my computer, investigate why
It samples far too slowly for the streams I'm using (can be converted with sox infile.wav outfile.wav speed 4.0)
Write to /home/jrrealrekord.wav should be /home/jr/realrekord.wav
Complains that it can't kill realplayer
Make user interface good
Remove the station library, just keep a list of past stations

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