realcap 0.311 review

realcap is a bash utility to help with capturing streams from realplayer. From the help file we can see the next options: Most

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 3K Developer: fuzzbucket

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realcap is a bash utility to help with capturing streams from realplayer.

From the help file we can see the next options:

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)

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)