[sllug-members]: vlc question

[Robert Lewis]

Doran L. Barton wrote:
> Not long ago, Robert Lewis proclaimed...
>   
>> Any VLC command line experts here?
>>
>> I want to record to a file via cron calling a bash script.
>> This has been working for years via streamripper but
>> the source has now changed from mp3 stream to asf.
>>
>> Apparently streamripper doesn't handle asf streams.
>> However, vlc does.
>>     
>
> So does mplayer and mplayer does a fine job of ripping streams to files.
>   
What command line options would you recommend for doing this?
I did try mplayer once to listen to the stream and it did work.  I did
hear some strange clicking sounds once in awhile though.