realcap v0.311

by fuzzbucket@eircom.net

What is it?

Realcap is a bash utility to help with capturing streams from realplayer.
Please note: I am no longer maintaining this project and I am unable to provide any support relating to realcap. The last version is available below. If you want an alternative, MPlayer can competently capture both video and audio streams.

Requirements:

realplay (http://www.real.com/)
vsound (http://www.xenoclast.org/vsound/)
oggenc (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/ - required if ogg vorbis output is specified)
lame (http://lame.sourceforge.net/ - required if mp3 output is specified)

Usage:

From the help file:
Most basic operation requires only the stream URL.
Available options:

-v, --version	display version
-h, --help	display help text
-c, --captime	duration of stream in seconds. remember to take initial buffering into account (defaults to 1 hour)
-o, --oggbits	nominal bitrate (kbps) of ogg vorbis output. if omitted ogg encoding will not occur
-m, --mp3bits	constant bitrate (kbps) of mp3 output. if omitted mp3 encoding will not occur
-q, --oggquality	ogg vorbis quality between 0 - 10, 10 being the highest. Fractional values allowed
-a, --trackartist	artist's name for ID3 tag in compressed output file
-t, --tracktitle	track title for ID3 tag in compressed output file
-f, --filename	all output files will be given this name. do not provide an extension( defaults to vsound.wav/ogg/mp3)
-d, --delete	deletes wav file after recording if ogg vorbis bitrate/mp3 is specified (otherwise this parameter is ignored)

How do I get it?

Download realcap.0311.tar.gz (3278 bytes). You can then either place realcap on the system path (somewhere like /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin) or if you don't have root acces on the system you can create a bin directory in your user directory like so:

cd
mkdir bin

You can then add this directory to your path by modifying the file ~/.bashrc to include this line:

export PATH=$PATH:~/bin

You can then execute realcap as you do any other available command. See the README file for more information.

Thanks to:
John McGowan for his suggestion regarding the potential locations of real streams. You can now specify any local or remote location you wish.